Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1923. Insects in amber from South America. The American Journal of Science, Fifth Series 5:331-333
Belongs to Mycomya according to S. S. Oliveira and D. D. S. Amorim 2021
See also Cockerell 1923
Sister taxa: Mycomya (Mycomya), Mycomya cockerelli, Mycomya crassicornis, Mycomya curvithoracis, Mycomya fossilis, Mycomya helmii, Mycomya hoolei, Mycomya hubaulti, Mycomya kuhni, Mycomya lithomendax, Mycomya oblita, Mycomya palaeocenica, Mycomya peduncularis, Mycomya reisingeri, Mycomya subquadrata, Mycomya umbonata, Mycomya unicolor, Mycomya vetusta, Mycomyia fulvescens
Type specimen: Its type locality is Colombian copal, Valle de Jesus, which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Colombia
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Colombian copal, Valle de Jesus
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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