Insecta - Diptera - Keroplatidae

Alternative combination: Promacrocera archaica

Full reference: L. Armbruster. 1938. Versteinerte Honigbienen aus dem obermiocänen Randecker Maar. Archiv für Bienenkunde 19:97-133

Belongs to Macrocera according to N. L. Evenhuis 2006

See also Armbruster 1938 and Evenhuis 1994

Sister taxa: Macrocera apithanos, Macrocera electricornis, Macrocera grandis, Macrocera minuta, Macrocera obliqua, Macrocera umbonata

Type specimen: Schempp 3257, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Randeck Maar (Schempp collection), which is in a MN 5 crater lake lime mudstone in the Randeck Maar Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Randeck Maar (Schempp collection)

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