Elephantomyia Osten Sacken 1860 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

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 I. Kania‑Kłosok and W. Krzemiński 2021

See also Aldrich 1905, Carpenter 1992, Evenhuis 1994, Kania 2015, Kania 2015 and Kopeć et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Antochini, Antodicranomyia, Antohelia, Dicranomyia, Dicranoptycha, Helius, Lebania, Lechriini, Limonia, Limoniini, Lipsothrix, Microdacno, Orimarga, Orimarguloides, Palestinoptera, Protolimnophila, Rhipidia, Thaumastoptera, Toxorhina, Trentepohlia

Subtaxa: Elephantomyia (Elephantomyia) Elephantomyia (Hoffeinsonia)

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections)

• Eocene of Germany (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (5)

Total: 11 collections including 23 occurrences

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