Protodilophus Skartveit 2023 (march fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Full reference: J. Skartveit. 2023. When the past meets the present: the oldest known Bibioninae, and the youngest known Cretobibioninae (Diptera, Bibionidae) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Zootaxa 5258:548-556

Parent taxon: Bibioninae according to J. Skartveit 2023

Sister taxa: Bibionini, Dilophini, Dilophus deletus

Subtaxa: Protodilophus semispinosus

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Type: Protodilophus semispinosus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Skartveit/SDEI collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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