†Eltxo Arillo and Nel 2000 (gall midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Cecidomyiidae
Full reference: A. Arillo and A. Nel. 2000. Two new fossil cecidomyiids flies from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Alava (Spain) (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 105:285-288
Parent taxon: Amediini according to E. Peñalver et al. 2022
See also Arillo and Nel 2000, Fedotova and Perkovsky 2020, Gagné and Jaschhof 2014 and Jaschhof 2021
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Eltxo cretaceus Eltxo grimaldii
Type: Eltxo cretaceus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Spain (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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