Boreofairchildia scheveni Wagner 2006 (moth fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Alternative combination: Nemapalpus scheveni

Full reference: R. Wagner. 2006. Amber Bruchomyiinae - descriptions of already known and new species, and the position of the "subfamily" within Psychodidae (s.l.) (Diptera). Studia Dipterologica 13:83-95

Belongs to Boreofairchildia according to R. Wagner 2017

See also Wagner 2006 and Wagner and Stuckenberg 2016

Sister taxa: Boreofairchildia dominicana, Boreofairchildia hennigianus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dominican amber (Scheven coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Scheven coll)

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