Simulidium priscum Westwood 1854 (snipe fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Rhagionidae

Full reference: J. O. Westwood. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10:378-396

Belongs to Simulidium according to M. B. Mostovski et al. 2003

See also Handlirsch 1906, Scudder 1885 and Westwood 1854

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH In. 59266, a wing. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Middle Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie collection), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Durlston Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Durlston Bay, Middle Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie collection)

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