Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae

Full reference: S. Bramuzzo and A. Nel. 2017. Youngest representative of the extinct genus Microphorites in the Eocene amber of France (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Microphorinae). Zootaxa 4231:590-594

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

See also Bramuzzo and Nel 2017

Sister taxa: Microphorites deploegi, Microphorites extinctus, Microphorites magaliae, Microphorites moravicus, Microphorites oculeus, Microphorites pouilloni, Microphorites similis, Microphorites utrillensis

Type specimen: MNHN PA 979, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy

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