†Cratotabanus asiaticus Grimaldi 2016 (horse fly)
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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 Cratotabanus according to D. A. Grimaldi 2016
Sister taxa: Cratotabanus cearensis, Cratotabanus newjerseyensis, Cratotabanus stonemyomorphus
Type specimen: AMNH Bu-SE3/2, 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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