Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae
Full reference: W. Giłka and M. Zakrzewska. 2020. Taxonomic names, in Minute and diverse in fossil sticky stuff: Tanytarsini (Diptera: Chironomidae) from early Eocene Indian Cambay amber. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189:1398-1425
Belongs to Stempellinella according to W. Giłka and M. Zakrzewska 2020
Sister taxa: Stempellinella bicorna, Stempellinella electra, Stempellinella fibra, Stempellinella gilkai, Stempellinella ivanovae
Type specimen: BSIP Tad-571a, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection), which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in India.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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