Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae
Alternative combination: Nemopalpus velteni
Full reference: R. Wagner. 2012. Taxonomic names, in New fossil and extant species of Nemopalpus Macquart (Diptera: Psychodidae: Bruchomyiinae). African Invertebrates 53:357-359
Belongs to Palaeoglaesum according to K. Skibińska et al. 2019
See also Stebner et al. 2015, Wagner 2012 and Wagner 2017
Sister taxa: Palaeoglaesum bisulcum, Palaeoglaesum carsteni, Palaeoglaesum gregi, Palaeoglaesum jakubi, Palaeoglaesum muelleri, Palaeoglaesum myanmari, Palaeoglaesum notandum, Palaeoglaesum pilosus, Palaeoglaesum quadrispiculatum, Palaeoglaesum stebneri, Palaeoglaesum teres, Palaeoglaesum wagneri
Type specimen: ISEA MP/3838, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (ISEA Krakow collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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