Paleopsychoda inexpectata Azar and Nel 2002 (moth fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Full reference: D. Azar and A. Nel. 2002. New Cretaceous psychodid flies from Lebanese amber and Santana Formation (Chapada do Araripe, Brazil) (Diptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 38:253-262

Belongs to Paleopsychoda according to F. Stebner et al. 2015

See also Azar and Nel 2002

Sister taxa: Paleopsychoda jacquelinae, Paleopsychoda jarzembowskii, Paleopsychoda palistinicus, Paleopsychoda solignac, Paleopsychoda solignaci, Paleopsychoda zherikhini

Type specimen: Azar 118, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)

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