ammonites
Chaetopleurophora electra Brues 1939 (scuttle fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Phoridae

Alternative combination: Chaetocnemistoptera electra

Full reference: C. T. Brues. 1939. Fossil Phoridae in Baltic amber. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 85:413-436

Belongs to Chaetopleurophora according to B. V. Brown 1999

Sister taxon: Chaetopleurophora laminarum

Type specimen: MCZ 7869, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, W.A. Haren collection, MCZ, which is in a Lutetian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

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