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- Title
A fossil nymphomyiid (Diptera) from the Baltic and Bitterfeld amber.
- Authors
Wagner, R.; Hoffeins, C.; Hoffeins, H. W.
- Abstract
Summary Nymphomyia succina sp.n., the first fossil nymphomyiid fly (Diptera) from the Eocene Baltic and Bitterfeld amber is described and figured, based on four males. A probably conspecific female from the Baltic amber is also described and figured. With the discovery of this species, a gap in the distribution pattern of extant Nymphomyiidae is closed. It is probable that nymphomyiids colonized the eastern Nearctic Region via the Thule landbridge approximately 25–30 million years before present.
- Subjects
NYMPHOMYIIDAE; EOCENE stratigraphic geology
- Publication
Systematic Entomology, 2000, Vol 25, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
0307-6970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-3113.2000.025001115.x