Paleoplatyura Explained

Paleoplatyura is a genus of predatory fungus gnats in the family Keroplatidae. There are about seven described species in Paleoplatyura. Fossil species are known from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar, dating to around 100 million years ago.^[1]

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Paleoplatyura:

• P. aldrichii Johannsen, 1909
• P. johnsoni Johannsen, 1910
• P. melanderi Fisher, 1941
• † M. macrocera (Meunier, 1899)
• † P. eocenica Cockerell, 1921
• † P. loewi Meunier, 1922
• † P. macrocera Meunier, 1899

Notes and References

1. Ševčík. Jan. Krzemiński. Wiesław. Skibińska. Kornelia. 2021-12-24. Extant Genus in the Mesozoic: Paleoplatyura Meunier (Diptera: Keroplatidae) Found in the Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar. Insects. en. 13. 1. 24. 10.3390/insects13010024. 35055867. 8778176. 2075-4450. free.