Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae
Full reference: V. Ngô-Muller and A. Nel. 2020. Taxonomic names, in A new species of the long-legged fly genus Microphorites in Burmese amber (Dolichopodidae: Microphorinae). Cretaceous Research 107(104284)
Belongs to Microphorites according to I. V. Shamshev and E. E. Perkovsky 2022
See also Jouault et al. 2020 and Ngô-Muller and Nel 2020
Sister taxa: Microphorites deploegi, Microphorites erikai, Microphorites extinctus, Microphorites magaliae, Microphorites moravicus, Microphorites oculeus, Microphorites similis, Microphorites utrillensis
Type specimen: MNHN.F.A71310, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (MNHN coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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