Cyttaromyia Scudder 1877 (long bodied crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Cylindrotomidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1877. The First Discovered Traces of Fossil Insects in the American Tertiaries. Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 3:741-762

Parent taxon: Cylindrotominae according to I. Kania‑Kłosok et al. 2021

See also Carpenter 1992, Cockerell 1921, de Jong 2019, Evenhuis 1994, Freiwald 1991, Krzemiński 1991, Krzemiński 2019, Scudder 1877 and Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Cylindrotoma, Oryctogma

Subtaxa: Cyttaromyia fenestrata Cyttaromyia freiwaldi Cyttaromyia frelloi Cyttaromyia fuscula Cyttaromyia gelhausi Cyttaromyia lynnae Cyttaromyia obdurescens Cyttaromyia princetoniana Cyttaromyia quievreuxi Cyttaromyia rayona Cyttaromyia reclusa Cyttaromyia rossi Cyttaromyia scudderi Cyttaromyia vahldieki

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Oligocene of France (1 collection)

• Eocene of Denmark (4), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: Colorado, Montana, Utah)

Total: 19 collections including 24 occurrences

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