Austrolimnophila Alexander 1920 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Alternative spelling: Limnophila (Austrolimnophila)

Full reference: C. P. Alexander. 1920. The crane-flies collected by the Swedish expedition (1895-1896) to southern Chile and Tierra del Fuego (Tipulidae, Diptera). Arkiv för Zoologi 13(6):1-32

Parent taxon: Limnophilinae according to G. C. Ribeiro 2008

See also Alexander 1920, Carpenter 1992 and Evenhuis 1994

Sister taxa: Afrolimnophila, Eloeophila, Gurnardia, Gynoplistia, Hexatoma, Limnophila, Phylidorea, Pilaria, Polymera, Pseudolimnophila, Tonnoirella, Epiphragma, Neolimnomyia

Subtaxa: Austrolimnophila (Austrolimnophila)

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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