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
Parent taxon: Brachycera according to D. A. Grimaldi 2016
Sister taxa: Acanthomyites, Anthomyia atavella, Anthomyia atavina, Anthomyia burgessi, Anthomyia heymanni, Anthomyia inanimata, Anthomyia laminarum, Anthomyia latipennis, Anthomyia morio, Anthomyia persepulta, Anthomyia pulcherrima, Anthomyia winchesteri, Anthracida, Archisargoidea, Arthropiella, Asilomorpha, Batgana, Chyromyidae, Dipterites, Eomyiidae, Eomyza, Eophlebomyiidae, Eostratiomyiidae, Epidia, Eucaudomyiidae, Galliidae, Heterodactyla, Hilarimorphidae, Homeodactyla, Ija, Leria sapromyzoides, Liassonympha, Lithotachina, Mesobrachyopteryx, Mesomphrale, Mesostratiomyia, Mongolomyia, Musca longipes, Musca resinosa, Musca setosa, Musca venosa, Muscomorpha, Oligophrynidae, Orthorrhapha, Pachyuronympha, Proneottiophilidae, Prosechamyiidae, Protobrachyceridae, Protobrachycerontidae, Protomphralidae, Remalia, Shulmas, Stratiomyopsis, Syrphopsis, Trichoceromorpha, Vermilionomorpha, Xylophagomorpha
Subtaxa: Gracilomyia wit
Type: Gracilomyia wit
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)
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