Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Alternative combinations: Cheilotrichia hyalina, Empeda hyalina

Synonym: Gonomyia grisea Cockerell 1921

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VI. Oligocene insects from Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 7:453-480

Belongs to Cheilotrichia (Empeda) according to W. Krzemiński 2019

See also Cockerell 1921 and Evenhuis 1994

Sister taxa: Cheilotrichia (Empeda) axillaris, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) bella, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) budrysi, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) cretacea, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) diacantha, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) duplicata, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) ferruginea, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) minuta, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) palaeocenica, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) pawlowskii, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) platyphylla, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) rectistyla, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) schummeli, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) subabortiva, Cheilotrichia (Empeda) weitschati, Empeda stigmatica

Type specimens:

• Cheilotrichia (Empeda) hyalina: Hooley H.1893.4, a wing. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
• Gonomyia grisea: Hooley H.1534, a wing. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll)

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