†Boreofairchildia dominicana Wagner 2017 (moth fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae
Full reference: R. Wagner. 2017. Synopsis of extinct Bruchomyiinae (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Burmese, Baltic and Dominican amber, with descriptions of new genera and species. Zootaxa 4320:100-120
Belongs to Boreofairchildia according to R. Wagner 2017
Sister taxa: Boreofairchildia hennigianus, Boreofairchildia scheveni
Type specimen: Hoffeins 1170-4, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Hoffeins coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Hoffeins coll)
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