†Simuliites yantardakh Perkovsky and Sukhomlin 2016 (black fly)
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.
Insecta - Diptera - Simuliidae
Full reference: E. E. Perkovsky and E. B. Sukhomlin. 2016. The first record of Late Cretaceous blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Asia (Yantardakh, Taimyr). Paleontological Journal 50:997-1000
Belongs to Simuliites according to E. E. Perkovsky and E. B. Sukhomlin 2016
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PIN 3311/2129, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.