Ragas eocenica Sinclair and Hoffeins 2013 (fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Ragadidae

Full reference: B. J. Sinclair and C. Hoffeins. 2013. New fossil species of Ragas Walker (Diptera: Empididae) in Baltic amber (Tertiary, Eocene). Bonn Zoological Bulletin 62:92-99

Belongs to Ragas according to B. J. Sinclair and C. Hoffeins 2013

Sister taxa: Ragas baltica, Ragas bizarra, Ragas electrica, Ragas generosa, Ragas succinea, Ragas ulrichi

Type specimen: CCHH 1622-1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection

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