Valeseguyidae, a new family of Diptera in the Scatopsoidea, with a new genus in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 508-516

  De Souza Amorim, Dalton ^a   Grimaldi, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBER; CRETACEOUS; FEMALE; FLY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; PHYLOGENETICS; SIBLING; TAXONOMY;

ASIA; ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EURASIA; GREATER ANTILLES; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

CANTHYLOSCELIDAE; DIPTERA; MYCETOBIIDAE; NEMATOCERA; SCATOPSIDAE; SYNNEURON; TERMINALIA;

EID: 33845648144     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00326.x     Document Type: Article

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