Empis macilenta Meunier 1908 (dagger fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Empididae

Alternative combination: Hilara macilenta

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1908. Monographie des Empidae de l'ambre de la Baltique et catalogue bibliographique complet sur les diptères fossiles de cette résine. Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie 7:81-135

Belongs to Empis according to N. L. Evenhuis 1994

See also Meunier 1908

Sister taxa: Empis (Acallomyia), Empis bulbirostris, Empis carbonum, Empis exilis, Empis florissantana, Empis infossa, Empis inscita, Empis macrophthalma, Empis mala, Empis malefica, Empis melia, Empis miocenica, Empis mordax, Empis morosella, Empis orapaensis, Empis perdita, Empis personata, Empis poeppigi, Empis pulvillata, Empis spinifera, Empis stilicornis, Empis tibialis, Empis tritava, Empis umbonata

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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