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