Insecta - Diptera - Tanypezidae

Full reference: O. Lonsdale and K. Apigian. 2010. Description of the first known fossil representative of the family Tanypezidae (Diptera: Schizophora). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 153:213-216

Belongs to Neotanypeza according to O. Lonsdale 2020

See also Lonsdale and Apigian 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM Brodzinsky/Lopez-Penha 7457, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll)

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