A new Mycetophilidae Gnoristinae (Diptera) from the Oligocene of Provence (France)

2025/11/02 by Florence Hébert, Mathieu Boderau, Valérie Ngô‐Muller +2 · 1 voice
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution #Diptera species taxonomy and behavior #Fossil Insects in Amber

paper · doi:10.1080/00379271.2025.2569676

openalex publication_date 2025/11/02 · openalex created_date 2025/11/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15

Abstract

Summary?Katatopygia cerestensis n. sp., first fossil representative of the mycetophilid extant genus Katatopygia, is described after a compression from the Oligocene lacustrine Konservat Lagerstätte of Céreste (Luberon, southern France). This Holarctic genus is mainly distributed in Boreal taiga but is also recorded from the warmer area of Taiwan, which is congruent with its presence under the warm paleoclimate of the Oligocene of France.

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