Espanoderus barbarae Skibińska et al. 2017 (moth fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Full reference: K. Skibińska, W. Krzemiński, and A. Arillo. 2017. The first Tanyderidae (Diptera) from Lower Cretaceous Álava amber (Spain). Historical Biology 31:872-878

Belongs to Espanoderus according to K. Skibińska et al. 2017

Sister taxon: Espanoderus orientalis

Type specimen: MCNA 13034, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Peñacerrada outcrop I, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Escucha Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Peñacerrada outcrop I

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