†Enischnomyia stegosoma Poinar and Brown 2012 (bat fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Streblidae
Full reference: G. Poinar and A. Brown. 2012. The first fossil streblid bat fly, Enischnomyia stegosoma n. g., n. sp. (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea: Streblidae). Systematic Parasitology 81:79-86
Belongs to Enischnomyia according to G. Poinar and A. Brown 2012
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Poinar D-7-239, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber, La Bucara mine (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the La Toca Formation of the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber, La Bucara mine (Poinar coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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