†Eltxo cretaceus 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
Belongs to Eltxo according to M. Jaschhof 2021
See also Arillo and Nel 2000 and Gagné and Jaschhof 2014
Sister taxon: Eltxo grimaldii
Type specimen: MCNA 8824, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Peñacerrada outcrop I, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Escucha Formation of Spain.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Peñacerrada outcrop I
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