†Rajpardia grimaldii Bickel 2022 (long-legged fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Dolichopodidae
Full reference: D. J. Bickel. 2022. Taxonomic names, in Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from the Eocene amber deposits of Cambay and Kutch basins, India. Palaeoentomology 5:475-486
Belongs to Rajpardia according to D. J. Bickel 2022
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH Tad-372, 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)
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