Mycetobia myanmara Kania et al. 2018 (wood gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Anisopodidae

Full reference: I. Kania, M. Wojtoń, and W. Krzemiński. 2018. The oldest Mycetobia Meigen, 1818 (Diptera, Anisopodoidea) from Upper Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 95:302-309

Belongs to Mycetobia according to I. Kania et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Mycetobia antillea, Mycetobia christelae, Mycetobia connexa, Mycetobia cryptambra, Mycetobia hansi, Mycetobia perkovskyi, Mycetobia silvia, Mycetobia sylvieae, Mycetobia szwedoi

Type specimen: ISEA MP/3683, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (ISEA Krakow collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (ISEA Krakow collection)

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