Cretothereva Carmo et al. 2021 (stiletto fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Therevidae

Full reference: D. D. D. Carmo, C. J. E. Lamas, and G. C. Ribeiro. 2021. The oldest fossil stiletto fly: a new genus and species from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil (Diptera: Therevidae). Cretaceous Research 130(105039)

Parent taxon: Therevidae according to G. C. Ribeiro et al. 2024

See also Carmo et al. 2021

Sister taxa: Arctogephyra, Kroeberiella, Palaeopherocera, Phycusinae, Psilocephala, Therevinae, Xestomyzinae

Subtaxa: Cretothereva antiqua

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Type: Cretothereva antiqua

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Crato (Vulcano collection) (Cretaceous of Brazil)

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