Avenaphora

Avenaphora
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Diptera
Family:Dolichopodidae
Subfamily:Microphorinae
Genus:†Avenaphora
Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999[1]
Type species
†Avenaphora hispida
Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999[1]

Avenaphora is an extinct genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is known from the Cretaceous of Lebanon and France.[1][2]

Species

  • †Avenaphora gallica Nel, Garrouste & Daugeron, 2016[2]
  • †Avenaphora hispida Grimaldi & Cumming, 1999[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Grimaldi, David A.; Cumming, Jeffrey Malcolm (1999). "Brachyceran Diptera in Cretaceous ambers and Mesozoic diversification of the Eremoneura" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (239): 1–124. hdl:2246/1583.
  2. 1 2 Nel, André; Garrouste, Romain; Daugeron, Christophe (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.
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