Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Synonym: Stibadocerites Zeuner 1941
Full reference: C. R. Osten Sacken. 1860. New genera and species of North American Tipulidae with short palpi, with an attempt at a new classification of the tribe. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1859:197-256
Parent taxon: Limoniinae according to W. Krzemiński 2019
See also Aldrich 1905, Carpenter 1992, Evenhuis 1994, Gao et al. 2016, Kania 2015, Kania et al. 2015, Krzemiński 1993, Krzemiński 2004, Krzemiński and Gentilini 1992, Podenas 2004, Wappler 2002, Wappler 2003 and Zeuner 1941
Sister taxa: Antochini, Antodicranomyia, Antohelia, Dicranomyia, Elephantomyia, Helius, Lebania, Lechriini, Limonia, Limoniini, Lipsothrix, Microdacno, Orimarga, Orimarguloides, Palestinoptera, Protolimnophila, Rhipidia, Thaumastoptera, Toxorhina, Trentepohlia
Subtaxa: Dicranoptycha anna Dicranoptycha burmitica Dicranoptycha electrina Dicranoptycha europaea Dicranoptycha fragmentata Dicranoptycha germana Dicranoptycha lignitica Dicranoptycha megaphallus Dicranoptycha osata Dicranoptycha plicativa Dicranoptycha rottensis Dicranoptycha staryi
Type: Dicranoptycha germana
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Lithuania (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Paleocene of the United Kingdom (1)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (3)
Total: 12 collections including 13 occurrences
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