Insecta - Diptera - Acroceridae

Full reference: J. P. Gillung and S. L. Winterton. 2017. A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic amber. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16:325-350

Belongs to Prophilopota according to J. P. Gillung and S. L. Winterton 2019

See also Gillung and Winterton 2017

Sister taxon: Prophilopota succinea

Type specimen: CCHH 1472-2, 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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