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Issue: Vol. 4093 No. 3: 23 Mar. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-03-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.3.10
Page range: 444–450
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 1

The oldest accurate record of Scenopinidae in the Lowermost Eocene amber of France (Diptera: Brachycera)

Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB – UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, F-75005, Paris, France.
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People’s Republic of China Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Biology, Beirut, Lebanon.
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB – UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, F-75005, Paris, France.
Diptera Scenopinidae gen. nov. sp. nov. amber Eocene

Abstract

Eocenotrichia magnifica gen. et sp. nov. (Diptera: Scenopinidae: Metatrichini) is described and illustrated from the Lowermost Eocene amber of Oise (France) and represents the oldest definitive window fly fossil. The present discovery in the Earliest Eocene supports the Late Cretaceous—Paleocene age currently proposed for the emergence of Metatrichini.

 

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