Ptiolinites raypearcei Mostovski et al. 2000 (snipe fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Rhagionidae

Full reference: M. B. Mostovski, E. A. Jarzembowski, R. A. Coram and J. Ansorge. 2000. Curious snipe-flies (Diptera: Rhagionidae) from the Purbeck of Dorset, The Wealden of the Weald and the Lower Cretaceous of Spain and Transbaikalia. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 111:153-160

Belongs to Ptiolinites according to M. B. Mostovski et al. 2000

Sister taxa: Ptiolinites almuthae, Ptiolinites cretaceus, Ptiolinites heidiae, Ptiolinites oudatchinae

Type specimen: MNEMG 1999.18, a wing. Its type locality is Clockhouse Brickworks (MNEMG collection), which is in a Hauterivian lagoonal mudstone in the Weald Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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