A new species of the long-legged fly genus Microphorites in Burmese amber (Dolichopodidae: Microphorinae)
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Paleontological Contributions Youngest occurrence of the genus Microphorites (Diptera: Dolichopodidae): A new species in Late Cretaceous Vendean amber
A new species of the extinct genus Microphorites Hennig (Dolichopodidae: Microphorinae) is described from a single male preserved in Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Santonian) Vendean amber (NW France). Microphorites magaliae n. sp., is mostly characterized by large compound eyes, flagellomere I with base bulbous and abruptly tapering to slender apex, thorax strongly hump-backed, with numerous a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cretaceous Research
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0195-6671
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104284