Biology:Villalites
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Short description: Extinct genus of flies
| Villalites | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Acroceridae |
| Subfamily: | Cyrtinae |
| Genus: | †Villalites Hennig, 1966 |
| Species: | †V. electrica
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| Binomial name | |
| †Villalites electrica Hennig, 1966
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Villalites is an extinct genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. It is known from Baltic amber from the Eocene, though the locality is unknown (possibly Russia ).[1] It contains only one species, Villalites electrica.
References
- ↑ 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.
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