Docidiadia grimaldii Amorim and Brown 2022 (fungus gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Diadocidiidae

Full reference: D. S. Amorim and B. V. Brown. 2022. Docidiadia grimaldii sp. nov. from Myanmar amber (Diptera: Diadocidiidae), with comments on the genus Docidiadia Blagoderov & Grimaldi. Palaeoentomology 5:505-512

Belongs to Docidiadia according to D. S. Amorim and B. V. Brown 2022

Sister taxon: Docidiadia burmitica

Type specimen: LACM ENT 479021, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (LACM collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

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

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