Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Alternative combinations: Dicranoptycha europaeus, Stibadocerites europaeus
Full reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1941. The Eocene Insects of the Ardtun Beds, Isle of Mull, Scotland. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 7:82-100
Belongs to Dicranoptycha according to J. Q. Gao et al. 2016
See also Evenhuis 1994, Krzemiński 1993 and Zeuner 1941
Sister taxa: Dicranoptycha anna, Dicranoptycha burmitica, Dicranoptycha electrina, Dicranoptycha fragmentata, Dicranoptycha germana, Dicranoptycha lignitica, Dicranoptycha megaphallus, Dicranoptycha osata, Dicranoptycha plicativa, Dicranoptycha rottensis, Dicranoptycha staryi
Type specimen: BMNH 37268, a wing (Apical half). Its type locality is Ardtun Head, Isle of Mull, which is in a Thanetian lacustrine claystone/sandstone in the interbasaltic plant-beds Formation of the United Kingdom.
Distribution: found only at Ardtun Head, Isle of Mull
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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