Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae

Full reference: M. Tkoč, A. Nel, and J. Prokop. 2016. Discovery of a new species of the Cretaceous genus Microphorites Hennig, 1971 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae s. lat.) in Paleogene amber from eastern Moravia (Czech Republic). Insect Systematics & Evolution 47:181-193

Belongs to Microphorites according to I. V. Shamshev and E. E. Perkovsky 2022

See also Tkoč et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Microphorites complanipedis, Microphorites curtipedis, Microphorites deploegi, Microphorites erikai, Microphorites extinctus, Microphorites hamataculeus, Microphorites magaliae, Microphorites oculeus, Microphorites pouilloni, Microphorites similis, Microphorites utrillensis

Type specimen: PrF UK 6, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Studlov amber, eastern Moravia, which is in a Paleocene/Eocene terrestrial amber in Czechia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Studlov amber, eastern Moravia

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