Apocephalus succineus Brown 2000 (scuttle fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

Full reference: B. V. Brown. 2000. Revision of the "Apocephalus miricauda-group" of ant-parasitizing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 482:1-62

Belongs to Apocephalus according to M. M. Solórzano-Kraemer et al. 2021

See also Brown 2000

Sister taxa: Apocephalus chiapanecus, Apocephalus dominicanus, Apocephalus miocenus

Type specimen: LACMIP 12785, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (LACM coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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