Yantarpsychodus szadziewskii Azar and Maksoud 2020 (moth fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Full reference: D. Azar and S. Maksoud. 2020. New psychodid flies from the Upper Cretaceous Yantardakh amber and Eocene Sakhalin amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae). Palaeoentomology 3:500-512

Belongs to Yantarpsychodus according to D. Azar and S. Maksoud 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN 3311/663, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311)

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