Villalites Temporal range:
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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.