Cheilotrichia (Empeda) bella Podenas 1999 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Full reference: S. Podenas. 1999. New Cheilotrichia crane flies (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic amber. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg 83:239-248

Belongs to Cheilotrichia (Empeda) according to K. Kopeć et al. 2019

See also Podenas 1999

Sister taxa: Cheilotrichia (Empeda) axillaris, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) budrysi, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) cretacea, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) diacantha, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) duplicata, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) ferruginea, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) hyalina, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) minuta, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) palaeocenica, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) pawlowskii, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) platyphylla, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) rectistyla, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) schummeli, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) subabortiva, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) weitschati, Empeda stigmatica

Type specimen: Vilnius University 537, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (Vilnius University collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (Vilnius University collection)

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