Buccinatormyia soplaensis Arillo et al. 2015 (fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Zhangsolvidae

Full reference: A. Arillo, E. Peñalver, and R. Pérez-de Fuente. 2015. Taxonomic names, in Long-proboscid brachyceran flies in Cretaceous amber (Diptera: Stratiomyomorpha: Zhangsolvidae). Systematic Entomology 40:242-267

Belongs to Buccinatormyia according to A. Arillo et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Buccinatormyia gangnami, Buccinatormyia magnifica

Type specimen: CES-015.2/CES-392.2, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is El Soplao amber, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Las Penosas Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at El Soplao amber

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