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Published: 2020-04-09
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The oldest of the rare: A new species of the family Nymphomyiidae (Diptera) from Burmese amber

University of Kassel, FB 10, Biology-Zoology, Heinrich-Plett-Straße 40, D-34132 Kassel, Germany Parkstraße 65, D-36110 Schlitz, Germany.
3Friedhofstraße 9, D-66894 Käshofen, Germany.
Diptera Nyphomyiidae Burmese amber new species new genus

Abstract

Nymphomyia allissae sp. nov. from the approximately 100 million years old Burmese amber is described and figured. The species is distinguished from other known taxa by the scimitar shaped wing, and the well sclerotized female terminalia with large cerci.

 

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