†Simuliites Kalugina 1986 (black fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Simuliidae
Full reference: N. S. Kalugina. 1986. Flies. Muscida (=Diptera), in Nasekomye v rannemelovykh ekosistemakh zapadnoy Mongolii. The Joint Soviet-Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition 28:112-125
Parent taxon: Simuliidae according to E. E. Perkovsky and E. B. Sukhomlin 2016
See also Kalugina 1986
Sister taxa: Gymnopaidinae, Inseliellum, Kovalevimyiinae, Nevermannia, Simuliinae, Simulimima, Simulium
Subtaxa: Simuliites yantardakh
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)
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