The first report of Dolichopodidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of Northern Myanmar
Abstract
A new extinct genus of Microphorinae is introduced here with its monotype species Pristinmicrophor hukawngensis gen. et sp. nov. This is the first report about a fossil Dolichopodidae sensu lato described from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. The new genus is distinctly different from all the known genera in having the triangular pterostigma at junction of R1 and costa and the small pentagonal basal cell formed by crossvein r-m and vein M.
- Publication:
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Cretaceous Research
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.07.009
- Bibcode:
- 2019CrRes.10404179T
- Keywords:
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- Myanmar amber;
- Empidoidea;
- New genus;
- New species;
- Cretaceous