Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Full reference: D. Azar and S. Maksoud. 2025. Xenophlebotomites eliei, a new genus and species of phlebotomine sandflies from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae). Palaeoworld 34(201004)

Belongs to Xenophlebotomites according to H. Tabakian 2025

See also Azar and Maksoud 2025

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: LU 294, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)

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