Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Full reference: R. P. Brazil and J. D. Andrade Filho. 2002. Description of Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) falcaorum sp. n. (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae), a fossil sand fly from Dominican Amber. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 97:501-503

Belongs to Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) according to R. P. Brazil and J. D. Andrade Filho 2002

Sister taxa: Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) bolontikui, Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) brazilorum, Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) dominicana, Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) filipalpis, Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) killickorum, Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) miocena, Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleopestis, Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleotownsendi, Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) paleotrichia, Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) succini

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dominican amber (Oswaldo Cruz coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Oswaldo Cruz coll)

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