Tabanipriscus transitivus Grimaldi 2016 (horse fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Tabanidae

Full reference: D. A. Grimaldi. 2016. Diverse orthorrhaphan flies (Insecta: Diptera: Brachycera) in amber from the Cretaceous of Myanmar: Brachycera in Cretaceous amber, part VII. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 408:1-131

Belongs to Tabanipriscus according to D. A. Grimaldi 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH Bu-SE2/10, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection)

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