†Macrochile hornei Krzemiński 2013 (moth fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae
Full reference: W. Krzemiński. 2013. Taxonomic names, in New taxa of Tanyderidae (Diptera) from Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 3599:60-64
Belongs to Macrochile according to E. D. Lukashevich 2020
See also Dong et al. 2015, Krzemiński 2013 and Skibińska 2016
Sister taxon: Macrochile spectrum
Type specimen: NHM PI.II.2527, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (BMNH coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (2 collections), the Russian Federation (3)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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