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) bella, 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: Palanga Ap.20381, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Palanga Amber Museum Collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Lithuania.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Palanga Amber Museum Collection

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