Succinatherix setifera Stuckenberg 1974 (water snipe fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Athericidae

Full reference: B. R. Stuckenberg. 1974. A new genus and two new species of Athericidae (Diptera) in Baltic amber. Annals of the Natal Museum 22(1):275-288

Belongs to Succinatherix according to B. R. Stuckenberg 1974

Sister taxon: Succinatherix avita

Type specimen: BMNH In. 18676, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (BMNH coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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