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A NEW SOLDIER FLY FROM CANADIAN AMBER (DIPTERA: STRATIOMYIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

H. J. Teskey
H. J. Teskey
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa
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Abstract

Cretaceogaster pygmaeus n. gen., n. sp. found in Canadian amber of Upper Cretaceous age from Cedar Lake, Man., is described and assigned to the subfamily Pachygastrinae of the Stratiomyidae. This is the first pre-tertiary record of this family.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 103 , Issue 12 , December 1971 , pp. 1659 - 1661
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1971

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