Cretadicerura salimi Azar and Nel 2020 (gall midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Cecidomyiidae

Full reference: D. Azar and A. Nel. 2020. New Cecidomyiidae from the Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera). Palaeoentomology 3:525-540

Belongs to Cretadicerura according to M. Jaschhof 2021

See also Azar and Nel 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LU TAR 10, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Bouarij, Caza Zhahleh (LU TAR collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Bouarij, Caza Zhahleh (LU TAR collection)

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