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Issue: Vol. 1 No. 1: December 2018
Type: Short Communication
Published: 2018-12-28
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.1.1.5
Page range: 42–46
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Libanosycorax dimyi gen. et sp. nov., the earliest sycoracine fly from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon (Diptera: Psychodidae: Sycoracinae)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China. Lebanese University, Faculty of Science II, Fanar, Natural Sciences Department, Fanar - El-Matn, PO box 26110217, Lebanon.
Lebanese University, Faculty of Science II, Fanar, Natural Sciences Department, Fanar - El-Matn, PO box 26110217, Lebanon.
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China. Lebanese University, Faculty of Science II, Fanar, Natural Sciences Department, Fanar - El-Matn, PO box 26110217, Lebanon.
Diptera Psychodidae Sycoracinae

Abstract

Sycoracinae are tiny flies with some species bearing functional mandibles and having blood-feeding behavior like phlebotomine flies (Azar et al., 2007; Azar and Salamé, 2015). They constitute a small group within Psychodidae in the modern fauna, represented by nearly 45 species belonging to three genera (Azar and Salamé, 2015; Ježek et al., 2015; Curler et al., 2015).

 

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