Empis melia von Heyden 1870 (dagger fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Empididae

Full reference: L. von Heyden. 1870. Fossile Dipteren aus der Braunkohle von Rott im Siebengebirge. Palaeontographica 17:237-266

Belongs to Empis according to F. Meunier 1920

See also Scudder 1885 and von Heyden 1870

Sister taxa: Empis (Acallomyia), Empis bulbirostris, Empis carbonum, Empis exilis, Empis florissantana, Empis infossa, Empis inscita, Empis macilenta, Empis macrophthalma, Empis mala, Empis malefica, Empis miocenica, Empis mordax, Empis morosella, Empis orapaensis, Empis perdita, Empis personata, Empis poeppigi, Empis pulvillata, Empis spinifera, Empis stilicornis, Empis tibialis, Empis tritava, Empis umbonata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Rott (Krantz Bonn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Germany (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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