Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

Alternative combination: Phora ethiopia

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1905. Nouvelles recherches sur quelques Diptères et Hyménoptères du copal fossile "dit de Zanzibar". Revue Scientifique du Bourbonnais et du Centre de la France 18:204-215

Belongs to Megaselia (Megaselia) according to N. L. Evenhuis 1994

See also Meunier 1905

Sister taxa: Megaselia (Megaselia) amberae, Megaselia (Megaselia) bernsteinae, Megaselia (Megaselia) copalina, Megaselia (Megaselia) dominicana, Megaselia (Megaselia) exporrecta, Megaselia (Megaselia) inflata, Megaselia (Megaselia) insolita, Megaselia (Megaselia) lauta, Megaselia (Megaselia) multipalpulata, Megaselia (Megaselia) sepulta, Megaselia (Megaselia) uncifera, Megaselia (Megaselia) veterana

Type specimen: Its type locality is Zanzibar Copal (Evers collection), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Tanzania

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Zanzibar Copal (Evers collection)

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