Cretomicrophorus

Cretomicrophorus is an extinct genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia, France and the United States. The generic name is a combination of the Latin word creta ("chalk") and the generic name Microphorus.[1]

Cretomicrophorus
Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous,
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Dolichopodidae
Subfamily: Parathalassiinae
Genus: †Cretomicrophorus
Negrobov, 1978[1]
Type species
†Cretomicrophorus rohdendorfi
Synonyms

Jantardachia Zherichin, 1978
(nomen nudum)

Species

The genus contains three species:

  • †Cretomicrophorus novemundus Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999[2]
  • †Cretomicrophorus piolencensis Nel, Garrouste & Daugeron, 2017[3]
  • †Cretomicrophorus rohdendorfi Negrobov, 1978[1]

References
  1. Negrobov, O. P. (1978). "Мухи надсемейства Empididoidea (Diptera) из мелового ретинита Северной Сибири" [Flies of the Superfamily Empidioidea (Diptera) from Cretaceous Retinite in Northern Siberia] (PDF). Paleontological Journal (in Russian). 12 (2): 221–228.
  2. Grimaldi, David A.; Cumming, Jeffrey Malcolm (1999). "Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 239: 1–124. hdl:2246/1583.
  3. Nel, André; Garrouste, Romain; Daugeron, Christophe (2017). "Two new long-legged flies in the Santonian amber of France (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)" (PDF). Cretaceous Research. 69: 1–5. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.08.009. (PDF given is the manuscript version)

Evenhuis, N.L. (2 Apr 2014). "Family Dolichopodidae". Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) website. 2.0.

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