Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Full reference: W. Krzemiński. 2004. Fossil Limoniidae (Diptera, Tipulomorpha) from Lower Cretaceous Burmese amber of Myanmar. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2:123-125
Belongs to Dicranoptycha according to J. Q. Gao et al. 2016
See also Krzemiński 2004
Sister taxa: Dicranoptycha anna, Dicranoptycha burmitica, Dicranoptycha electrina, Dicranoptycha europaea, Dicranoptycha germana, Dicranoptycha lignitica, Dicranoptycha megaphallus, Dicranoptycha osata, Dicranoptycha plicativa, Dicranoptycha rottensis, Dicranoptycha staryi
Type specimen: BMNH In.20171, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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