Palaeosycorax tertiariae Meunier 1905 (moth fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Alternative combinations: Nemapalpus tertiariae, Nemopalpus tertiariae

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1905. Sur un curieux Psychodidae de l'ambre de la Baltique. Miscellanea Entomologica 13:49-51

Belongs to Palaeosycorax according to R. Wagner 2017

See also Hennig 1972, Meunier 1905 and Wagner 2006

Sister taxon: Palaeosycorax molophilinus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Klebs collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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