Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Full reference: C. P. Alexander. 1931. Crane-flies of the Baltic Amber (Diptera). Bernstein-Forschungen 2:1-135
Belongs to Dicranoptycha according to J. Q. Gao et al. 2016
See also Alexander 1931, Kania 2015, Krzemiński 1985 and Podenas 2004
Sister taxa: Dicranoptycha anna, Dicranoptycha burmitica, Dicranoptycha europaea, Dicranoptycha fragmentata, Dicranoptycha germana, Dicranoptycha lignitica, Dicranoptycha megaphallus, Dicranoptycha osata, Dicranoptycha plicativa, Dicranoptycha rottensis, Dicranoptycha staryi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Lithuania (1 collection), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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