F. Meunier's scientific contributions

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... Nonetheless, it is helpful to evaluate the character polarity in a given taxon, and the fossil specimens of Bruchomyiinae allow for this'. A first fossil of the Bruchomyiinae, Palaeosycorax tertiariae (Meunier, 1905), was described from Baltic amber and was originally classified in Psychodidae. However, Alexander (1920) described the genus Bruchomyia, for which he established a new subfamily Bruchomyiinae in the Tanyderidae, which was transferred by Edwards to Psychodidae (Edwards, 1921). ...