Epiphragma 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: Hexatominae according to S. Podenas and G. O. Poinar 2001

See also Aldrich 1905, Carpenter 1992 and Evenhuis 1994

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

Subtaxa: Epiphragma aurora

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll) (Miocene to Miocene of Dominican Republic)

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