Protohoraiella katerinae Curler et al. 2019 (moth fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Full reference: G. R. Curler, W. Krzemiński, and K. Skibińska. 2019. The first record of fossil Horaiellinae (Diptera: Psychodidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 98:305-315

Belongs to Protohoraiella according to G. R. Curler et al. 2019

Sister taxon: Protohoraiella yvonnae

Type specimen: ISEA MP/3697, 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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