†Aenigmatias longicornis Brown 2016 (scuttle fly)
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Full reference: B. V. Brown. 2016. Fossil evidence of social insect commensalism in the Phoridae (Insecta: Diptera). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15:276-286
Belongs to Aenigmatias according to B. V. Brown 2016
Sister taxa: Aenigmatias bisetosus, Aenigmatias kishenehnensis, Aenigmatias nigeroticus, Aenigmatias primitivus, Aenigmatias tertiarius
Type specimen: Hoffeins 254/3, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (Hoffeins collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber (Hoffeins collection)
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