Insecta - Diptera - Atelestidae
Alternative combination: Alavesia longistylata
Full reference: H. Q. Zhang and Y. J. Wang. 2020. Taxonomic names, in New Alavesia species from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber highlight genitalic structural homology (Diptera: Empidoidea: Atelestidae). Cretaceous Research 116(104573)
Belongs to Alavesia (Pennonalavesia) according to A. Stark et al. 2020
See also Sinclair and Grimaldi 2020 and Zhang and Wang 2020
Sister taxa: Alavesia (Pennonalavesia) longicornuta, Alavesia (Pennonalavesia) wimpala
Type specimen: CNU-DIP-MA2019001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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