Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Full reference: R. J. Rayner and S. B. Waters. 1990. A Cretaceous crane-fly (Diptera: Tipulidae): 93 million years of stasis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 99:309-318

Belongs to Helius according to W. Krzemiński 1993

See also Rayner and Waters 1990

Sister taxa: Helius (Helius), Helius anetae, Helius constenius, Helius formosus, Helius fossilis, Helius gedanicus, Helius hispanicus, Helius hoffeinsorum, Helius krzeminskii, Helius lebanensis, Helius linus, Helius minutus, Helius miocenicus, Helius mutus, Helius pulcher, Helius similis, Helius stavropolensis, Helius tenerus, Helius turolensis, Helius verticillis, Helius weigandi, Rhamphidia minuta

Type specimen: BP/2/26000, an exoskeleton (complete male). Its type locality is Orapa (Bernard Price Institute), which is in a Turonian lacustrine - large mudstone in Botswana.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Orapa (Bernard Price Institute)

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