Omalia macroptera Van Beneden and Coemans 1867 (winged insect)

Insecta - Dicondylia - Omaliaidae

Full reference: P. J. Van Beneden and E. Coemans. 1867. Un insecte et un gastéropode pulmoné du terrain houiller. Bulletins de L'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Deuxième Série 23:384-401

Belongs to Omalia according to O. Béthoux and A. Nel 2005

See also Handlirsch 1904, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1922, Laurentiaux 1949, Pruvost 1930, Scudder 1885 and Van Beneden and Coemans 1867

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: RBINS a7687, a wing. Its type locality is La Louvière (Hainaut), which is in a Westphalian A terrestrial siliciclastic in the Flénu Formation of Belgium.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at La Louvière (Hainaut)

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