Aenigmatias longicornis Brown 2016 (scuttle fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

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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