Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae

Alternative combinations: Microphorus rusticus, Phyllodromia rustica

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 Microphor according to I. V. Shamshev and E. E. Perkovsky 2022

See also Evenhuis 1994, Hennig 1971 and Meunier 1908

Sister taxa: Microphor defunctus, Microphor eocenica

Type specimen: GZG 8918, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection

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