Protorhingia carpenteri Hull 1945 (hover fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Syrphidae

Full reference: F. M. Hull. 1945. A revisional study of the fossil Syrphidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 95:251-355

Belongs to Protorhingia according to F. M. Hull 1949

See also Hull 1945

Sister taxon: Protorhingia magnipennis

Type specimen: MCZ 3969, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (MCZ collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (MCZ collection)

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