Schlingeromyia is an extinct genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. The genus is known from Upper Cretaceous fossils in Burmese amber from Myanmar. It contains only one species, Schlingeromyia minuta.[1][2]

Schlingeromyia
Temporal range: Cenomanian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Acroceridae
Subfamily: Acrocerinae
Genus: Schlingeromyia
Grimaldi & Hauser in Grimaldi, Arillo, Cumming & Hauser, 2011[1]
Species:
S. minuta
Binomial name
Schlingeromyia minuta
Grimaldi & Hauser in Grimaldi, Arillo, Cumming & Hauser, 2011[1]

The genus is named in honor of Evert I. Schlinger. The specific name is the Latin word for "small", referring to the very small size of the species.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Grimaldi, DA; Arillo, A; Cumming, JM; Hauser, M (2011). "Brachyceran Diptera (Insecta) in Cretaceous ambers, Part IV, Significant New Orthorrhaphous Taxa". ZooKeys (148): 293–332. Bibcode:2011ZooK..148..293G. doi:10.3897/zookeys.148.1809. PMC 3264415. PMID 22287902.
  2. ^ Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2017). "A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic Amber". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (4): 325–350. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1289566. S2CID 90493326.