Palaeomedeterus is an
extinct genus of
flies in the family
Dolichopodidae, known from
Baltic amber and
Cambay amber from the
Eocene. The genus was first proposed by Fernand Meunier in 1895 with no included species or description, though illustrations were provided for six different unnamed species (making the name Palaeomedeterus available according to the
ICZN).[2]
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doi:
10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.5.9.
S2CID252472963.
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"New names in the family Dolichopodidae (Diptera)"(PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 69: 289–292. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
Evenhuis, N.L. (2 Apr 2014).
"Family Dolichopodidae". Catalog of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) website. 2.0.