†Micrepimera elegantissima Meunier 1904 (predatory fungus gnat)
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Insecta - Diptera - Keroplatidae
Alternative combination: Macrocera elegantissima
Full reference: F. Meunier. 1904. Monographie des Cecidomyidae, des Sciaridae, des Mycetophilidae et des Chironomidae de l'ambre de la Baltique. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 28:12-275
Belongs to Micrepimera according to V. Blagoderov et al. 2019
See also Evenhuis 2006, Johannsen 1909 and Meunier 1904
Sister taxon: Micrepimera neli
Type specimen: GPIG BST03066, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection
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