Rhabdomastix (Palaeogonomyia) pulcherrima Meunier 1906 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Alternative combination: Gonomyia (Palaeogonomyia) pulcherrima

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1906. Monographie des Tipulidae et des Dixidae de l'ambre de la Baltique. Annales de Science Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 9 4:349-401

Belongs to Rhabdomastix (Palaeogonomyia) according to C. P. Alexander 1931

See also Meunier 1906 and Podenas 2006

Sister taxa: Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) elegantula, Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) grussica, Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) klebsi, Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) lutix, Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) mastix, Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) rafali, Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) setix, Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) setosa, Rhabdomastix (Rhabdomastix) woottoni, Rhabdomastix (Palaeogonomyia) elegantula, Rhabdomastix (Palaeogonomyia) borussica

Type specimen: Konigsberg 168, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection

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