Biology:Caputmunda

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Short description: Genus of flies

Caputmunda
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily: Micromyinae
Tribe: Catochini
Genus: Caputmunda
Fedotova & Perkovsky, 2016
Type species
Caputmunda yantardakhica
Fedotova & Perkovsky, 2016

Caputmunda is a genus of wood midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. The one described species - Caputmunda yantardakhica - is only known from Taymyr amber from the Late Cretaceous.[1] It differs from other genera in its tribe due to wing venation and a short first tarsomere.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q114242049 entry