Cretomicrophorus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Empidoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Antliophora Ordo: Diptera Subordo: Brachycera Infraordo: Asilomorpha Superfamilia: Empidoidea

Familia: Dolichopodidae
Subfamilia: Parathalassiinae
Genus: †Cretomicrophorus
Species: †C. novemundus – †C. piolencensis – †C. rohdendorfi

Name

Cretomicrophorus Negrobov, 1978: 82

Type species: Cretomicrophorus rohdendorfi Negrobov, 1978, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Jantardachia Zherichin, 1978: 86 [nomen nudum]

References

Primary references

• 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]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 1978(2): 81–90 (in Russian). Zip-compressed PDF. [English translation: Paleontological Journal 12(2): 221–228.]

Additional references

• Badano, D., Sinclair, B.J., Zhang, Q., Palermo, F., Pieroni, N., Maugeri, L., Fratini, M. & Cerretti, P. 2023. New Cretaceous empidoids and the Mesozoic dance fly revolution (Diptera: Empidoidea). Cladistics 39(4): 337–357. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12536 . Reference page.  [placed as Dolichopodidae incertae sedis]
• Grimaldi, D.A. & Cumming, J.M. 1999. Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 239: 1–124. hdl: 2246/1583 . Reference page. 
• Nel, A., Garrouste, R. & Daugeron, C. 2017. Two new long-legged flies in the Santonian amber of France (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Cretaceous Research 69: 1–5. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.08.009 . Manuscript version (PDF). Reference page. 

Links

• Evenhius, N.L. 2014. Family Dolichopodidae. In: Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) website. Available at: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fossilcat/fossdolicho.html. Version 2.0.
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• Nomenclator Zoologicus