Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Synonym: Tipula tecta Scudder 1877
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
Belongs to Dicranomyia according to S. H. Scudder 1894
See also Scudder 1877 and Scudder 1890
Sister taxa: Dicranomyia (Caenolimonia), Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia), Dicranomyia (Melanolimonia), Dicranomyia (Sivalimnobia), Dicranomyia antennifera, Dicranomyia baltica, Dicranomyia bellissima, Dicranomyia faecarius, Dicranomyia fontainei, Dicranomyia fragilis, Dicranomyia inferna, Dicranomyia loewi, Dicranomyia longipes, Dicranomyia primitiva, Dicranomyia primoriana, Dicranomyia rhodolitha, Dicranomyia rohweri, Dicranomyia rostrata, Dicranomyia saxetana, Dicranomyia sergio, Dicranomyia speciosa, Dicranomyia stagnorum, Dicranomyia thybotica
Type specimens:
- Dicranomyia stigmosa: Its type locality is Fossil Cañon, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Utah
- Tipula tecta: Its type locality is Fossil Cañon, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Utah.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado, Utah collections)
Total: 2 collections including 3 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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