Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Full reference: K. Kopeć. 2019. Taxonomic names, in A new species of a genus Cheilotrichia (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Baltic and Ukrainian amber. Annales Zoologici 69:423-426
Belongs to Cheilotrichia (Empeda) according to K. Kopeć 2019
Sister taxa: Cheilotrichia (Empeda) axillaris, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) bella, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) budrysi, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) cretacea, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) diacantha, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) duplicata, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) ferruginea, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) hyalina, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) minuta, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) palaeocenica, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) platyphylla, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) rectistyla, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) schummeli, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) subabortiva, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) weitschati, Empeda stigmatica
Type specimen: ISEA MP/3844, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, ISEA Krakow collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (3 collections), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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