Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Alternative combination: Erioptera (Empeda) axillaris

Full reference: C. P. Alexander. 1931. Crane-flies of the Baltic Amber (Diptera). Bernstein-Forschungen 2:1-135

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

See also Alexander 1931 and Evenhuis 1994

Sister taxa: 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) schummeli, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) subabortiva, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) weitschati, Empeda stigmatica

Type specimen: Klebs 278, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Klebs collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Klebs collection

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