Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae
Full reference: A. Arillo, E. Peñalver, and X. Delclòs. 2008. Microphorites (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of San Just (Spain), and the co-occurrence of two ceratopogonid species in Spanish amber deposits. Zootaxa 1920:29-40
Belongs to Microphorites according to I. V. Shamshev and E. E. Perkovsky 2022
See also Arillo et al. 2008
Sister taxa: Microphorites deploegi, Microphorites erikai, Microphorites extinctus, Microphorites magaliae, Microphorites moravicus, Microphorites oculeus, Microphorites pouilloni, Microphorites similis
Type specimen: CPT-963, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is San Just amber, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Escucha Formation of Spain.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at San Just amber
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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