Schistostoma foliatum Brooks et al. 2019 (long-legged fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae

Full reference: S. E. Brooks, J. M. Cumming, and D. A. Grimaldi. 2019. Remarkable new fossil species of Schistostoma Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Microphorinae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa 4624:121-131

Belongs to Schistostoma according to I. V. Shamshev and E. E. Perkovsky 2022

See also Brooks et al. 2019

Sister taxon: Schistostoma burmanicum

Type specimen: AMNH Bu-175, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection)

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