†Sycorax prompta Meunier 1905 (moth fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae
Full reference: F. Meunier. 1905. Monographie des Psychodidae de l'ambre de la Baltique. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 3:235-255
Belongs to Sycorax according to A. Pielowska et al. 2018
See also Hennig 1972 and Meunier 1905
Sister taxa: Sycorax longistyla, Sycorax neli, Sycorax peruensis, Sycorax silacea, Sycorax tumultuosa, Sycorax ukrainensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection), Ukraine (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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