Myolepta luehei Cockerell 1910 (hover fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Syrphidae

Alternative combination: Myiolepta luehei

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1910. An apparently new syrphid fly from Baltic amber. Schriften der Physikalisch-ökonomischen Gesellschaft zu Königsberg 51:173

Belongs to Myolepta according to N. L. Evenhuis 1994

See also Cockerell 1910, Cockerell 1910 and Hull 1945

Sister taxa: Myolepta (Arctolepta), Myolepta (Sericolepta), Myolepta andreei, Myolepta elisabethae, Myolepta germanica, Myolepta valida, Myolepta woteni

Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection

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