Palaeoempalia urbana Meunier 1922 (fungus gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Alternative combination: Palaeoempalia urbanus

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1922. Nouvelle contribution à la monographie des "Mycetophilidae" (Ceratoplatinae, Mycetophilinae et Sciophilinae) de l'ambre de la Baltique. Revue Scientifique du Bourbonnais et du Centre de la France 1922(4):114-120

Belongs to Palaeoempalia according to S. S. Oliveira and D. D. S. Amorim 2021

See also Meunier 1922 and Meunier 1923

Sister taxa: Palaeoempalia broeckii, Palaeoempalia brongniarti, Palaeoempalia crassipes, Palaeoempalia cylindrica, Palaeoempalia interrupta, Palaeoempalia mutabilis, Palaeoempalia notata, Palaeoempalia ornata, Palaeoempalia saxea, Palaeoempalia servata, Palaeoempalia succini, Sciobia quadrangularis, Sciobia spinosa

Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection

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