Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Alternative combinations: Erioptera (Empeda) minuta, Erioptera minuta

Synonyms: Empeda elongata Meunier 1906, Empeda prolifica Meunier 1906

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1899. Révision des diptères fossiles types de Loew conservés au Musée Provincial de Koenigsberg. Miscellanea Entomologica 7:169-182

Belongs to Cheilotrichia (Empeda) according to K. Kopeć et al. 2019

See also Alexander 1931, Evenhuis 1994, Meunier 1899 and Meunier 1906

Sister taxa: Cheilotrichia (Empeda) axillaris, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) bella, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) budrysi, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) cretacea, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) diacantha, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) duplicata, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) ferruginea, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) hyalina, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) palaeocenica, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) pawlowskii, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) platyphylla, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) rectistyla, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) schummeli, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) subabortiva, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) weitschati, Empeda stigmatica

Type specimens:

• Cheilotrichia (Empeda) minuta: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Klebs collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
• Empeda elongata: Konigsberg 4037, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
• Empeda prolifica:

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