†Eltxo grimaldii Peñalver et al. 2022 (gall midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Cecidomyiidae
Full reference: E. Peñalver, A. Arillo, and A. Nel. 2022. A review of the Cretaceous genus Eltxo (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) with description of the new species Eltxo grimaldii from El Soplao amber. Palaeoentomology 5:461-467
Belongs to Eltxo according to E. Peñalver et al. 2022
Sister taxon: Eltxo cretaceus
Type specimen: ES-07-40, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is El Soplao amber, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Las Penosas Formation of Spain.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at El Soplao amber
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