Palaeoglaesum carsteni Skibińska et al. 2019 (moth fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Full reference: K. Skibińska, W. Krzemiński, and Q. Q. Zhang. 2019. A revised diagnosis of Palaeoglaesum Wagner (Diptera, Psychodidae, Bruchomyiinae) with description of two new species from Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Historical Biology 33:230-236

Belongs to Palaeoglaesum according to K. Skibińska et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Palaeoglaesum bisulcum, Palaeoglaesum gregi, Palaeoglaesum jakubi, Palaeoglaesum muelleri, Palaeoglaesum myanmari, Palaeoglaesum notandum, Palaeoglaesum pilosus, Palaeoglaesum quadrispiculatum, Palaeoglaesum stebneri, Palaeoglaesum teres, Palaeoglaesum velteni, Palaeoglaesum wagneri

Type specimen: GPIH 4924, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (GPIH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (GPIH collection)

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