Valeseguyidae, a new family of Diptera in the Scatopsoidea, with a new genus in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar

. The genus Cretoseguya , gen.n. , is described for C. burmitica , sp.n. , based on a female found in mid‐Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. Valeseguya Colless was classified previously as a subfamily of the ‘woodgnats’, family Mycetobiidae (Anisopodoidea). Thoracic and male terminalia morphology of Valeseguya rieki Colless, from the Recent of Australia, and V. disjuncta Grimaldi, in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic, are redescribed. The...