†Rhipidoxylomyia rasnitsyni Nel 2021 (gall midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Cecidomyiidae
Full reference: A. Nel. 2021. New Cecidomyiidae from the lowermost Eocene French amber (Diptera). Palaeoentomology 4:620-628
Belongs to Rhipidoxylomyia according to A. Nel 2021
Sister taxon: Rhipidoxylomyia vaga
Type specimen: MNHN.F.A71373, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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