Insecta - Diptera - Periscelididae

Alternative combination: Periscelis annectans

Full reference: A. H. Sturtevant. 1963. A fossil periscelid (Diptera) from the amber of Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 37(1):121-122

Belongs to Periscelis (Myodris) according to D. A. Grimaldi and W. N. Mathis 1993

Sister taxa: Periscelis (Myodris) amberifera, Periscelis (Myodris) brodzinskyi, Periscelis (Myodris) facianota

Type specimen: UCMP 12639, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is UCMP B-5103, Las Cruces landslide, Simojovel region, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.

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