Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Alternative combinations: Empeda schummeli, Erioptera (Empeda) schummeli

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1917. Über einige Mycetophiliden und Tipuliden des Bernsteins nebst Beschreibung der Gattung Palaeotanypeza (Tanypezinae) derselben Formation. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1917:73-106

Belongs to Cheilotrichia (Empeda) according to K. Kopeć et al. 2019

See also Alexander 1931, Evenhuis 1994 and Meunier 1917

Sister taxa: Cheilotrichia (Empeda) axillaris, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) bella, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) budrysi, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) cretacea, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) diacantha, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) duplicata, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) ferruginea, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) hyalina, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) minuta, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) palaeocenica, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) pawlowskii, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) platyphylla, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) rectistyla, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) subabortiva, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) weitschati, Empeda stigmatica

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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