Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae
Full reference: J. F. Petrulevičius, A. Nel, D. Franceschi, C. Goillot, P. O. Antoine, R. Salas-Gismondi, and J. J. Flynn. 2011. First fossil blood sucking Psychodidae in South America: a sycoracine moth fly (Insecta: Diptera) in the middle Miocene Amazonian amber. Insect Systematics & Evolution 42:87-96
Belongs to Sycorax according to J. F. Petrulevičius et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Sycorax longistyla, Sycorax neli, Sycorax prompta, Sycorax silacea, Sycorax tumultuosa, Sycorax ukrainensis
Type specimen: MUSM IQ26IA1-10, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Amazonian amber, Tamshiyacu locality, which is in a Serravallian terrestrial amber in the Pebas Formation of Peru.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Amazonian amber, Tamshiyacu locality
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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