Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Alternative combinations: Lutzomyia miocena, Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) miocena

Full reference: E. Peñalver and D. Grimaldi. 2006. Assemblages of mammalian hair and blood-feeding midges (Insecta: Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in Miocene amber. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 96:177-195

Belongs to Pintomyia according to E. A. B. Galati et al. 2025

See also Andrade Filho et al. 2009 and Peñalver and Grimaldi 2006

Sister taxa: Pintomyia (Pifanomyia), Pintomyia adiketis, Pintomyia bolontikui, Pintomyia brazilorum, Pintomyia dissimilis, Pintomyia dominicana, Pintomyia falcaorum, Pintomyia filipalpis, Pintomyia killickorum, Pintomyia paleopestis, Pintomyia succini

Type specimen: AMNH DR-6-147, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (AMNH coll)

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