Eoptychopterina demissa Lukashevich et al. 2001 (phantom crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae

Full reference: E. D. Lukashevich, R. A. Coram, and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2001. New true flies (Insecta: Diptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England. Cretaceous Research 22:451-460

Belongs to Eoptychopterina according to E. D. Lukashevich 2004

See also Lukashevich et al. 2001

Sister taxa: Eoptychopterina adnexa, Eoptychopterina angularis, Eoptychopterina antica, Eoptychopterina baisica, Eoptychopterina camura, Eoptychopterina daiensis, Eoptychopterina dimidiata, Eoptychopterina elenae, Eoptychopterina glabra, Eoptychopterina kaluginae, Eoptychopterina karatavica, Eoptychopterina mediata, Eoptychopterina omissa, Eoptychopterina petri, Eoptychopterina postica, Eoptychopterina rohdendorphi, Eoptychopterina transbaicalica, Eoptychopterina undensis

Type specimen: MNEMG 1998.16, a wing (complete isolated wing). Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Bed DB175, Swanage (MNEMG collection), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal siliciclastic in the Durlston Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Durlston Bay, Bed DB175, Swanage (MNEMG collection)

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