Dolichotachina smithii Townsend 1938

Insecta - Diptera - Sarcophagidae

Alternative combination: Electrotachina smithii

Full reference: C. H. T. Townsend. 1938. Five new genera of fossil Oestromuscaria (Diptera). Entomological News 49:166-167

Belongs to Dolichotachina according to J. E. O'Hara et al. 2013

See also Townsend 1938

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH 58551, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is East Africa Copal (BMNH coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Tanzania.

Distribution: found only at East Africa Copal (BMNH coll)

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