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Cretoperomyia

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Genus of flies

Cretoperomyia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily: Micromyinae
Tribe: Peromyiini
Genus: †Cretoperomyia
Fedotova & Perkovsky, 2016
Type species
Cretoperomyia dmitrii
Fedotova & Perkovsky, 2016

Cretoperomyia is a genus of wood midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. The one described species - Cretoperomyia dmitrii - is only known from Taymyr amber from the Late Cretaceous.

References

  1. R.J. Gagne; M. Jaschof (2021). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (5th ed.). ISBN 978-0-9863941-3-3. Wikidata Q109561625.
  2. Z. A. Fedotova; E. E. Perkovsky (December 2016). "First gall midges (Diptera, Cecidomyioidea) from Late Cretaceous amber of the Taimyr Peninsula". Paleontological Journal. 50 (9): 1001–1026. doi:10.1134/S0031030116090033. ISSN 0031-0301. Wikidata Q56697821.
Taxon identifiers
Cretoperomyia


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