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Issue: Vol. 1010 No. 1: 21 Jun. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-06-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1010.1.4
Page range: 37–52
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 2

Five new species of Tachydromiinae (Diptera: Empididae s.l.) from New World Tertiary ambers

Institut für Paläontologie, Nussallee 8, 53115 Bonn, Germany
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, C.E.F., Ottawa, ON, Canada K1A 0C6
Diptera Empidoidea Tachydromiinae systematics Mexican and Dominican amber

Abstract

Five new species of Tachydromiinae (Empididae s.l.) are described, four from Mexican amber (Chaetodromia pulchra sp. nov., Drapetis dissentis sp. nov., Micrempis brevis sp. nov., Stilpon mexicanus sp. nov.) and one from Dominican amber (Chersodromia dominicana sp. nov.). These are the first tachydromiine species described from New World Tertiary (Oligocene-Miocene) ambers. Thirty-two Tertiary fossil species of Tachydromiinae are now known worldwide.

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