Eoplatypalpus Shamshev 2025 (dance fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Hybotidae

Full reference: I. V. Shamshev. 2025. Taxonomic names, in A new genus of hybotid dance fly (Diptera: Hybotidae, Tachydromiinae) from the Eocene Sakhalinian amber. Zootaxa 5575:283-294

Parent taxon: Tachydromiinae according to I. V. Shamshev 2025

Sister taxa: Archaeodrapetiops, Archiplatypalpus, Cretoplatypalpus, Drapetiella, Drapetini, Electrocyrtoma, Mesoplatypalpus, Sepsis atra, Sepsis bicolorata, Sepsis ignobilis, Symballophthalmini, Tachydromiini, Lochmocola, Eocorynetites

Subtaxa: Eoplatypalpus sachalinensis

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Type: Eoplatypalpus sachalinensis

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Sakhalin Amber (PIN collection 3387)

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