Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
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: Limoniidae according to N. L. Evenhuis 1994
See also Carpenter 1992, Scudder 1877 and Scudder 1890
Sister taxa: Allarithmia, Archilimoniinae, Architipulinae, Calobamon, Chioneinae, Critoneura, Cyttaromyella, Dactylolabinae, Dicranota, Dictyodiptera, Dictyodiptera multinervis, Drinosinae, Eopolyneura, Eopolyneura tenuinervis, Eotipulinae, Haplotipula, Hottipula, Iyaiyai, Leptotipuloides, Limnocema, Limnophilinae, Limoniinae, Metarchilimonia, Palaeomacromastix, Palaeopoecilostola, Paradelphomyia, Paradictyodiptera, Paradictyodiptera trianalis, Pareopolyneura, Pareopolyneura costalis, Phyllolabis, Rhadinobrochus, Tanymera, Tanysphyra, Tipulodictya, Tipulodictya minima, Ula
Subtaxa: Pronophlebia rediviva
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado, Utah collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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