Rhamphidia minuta Loew 1850 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Full reference: H. Loew. 1850. Ueber den Bernstein und die Bernsteinfauna. Programm der K. Realschule Meseritz 1850:1-44

Belongs to Rhamphidia according to F. Meunier 1906

See also Kania 2014, Krzemiński 1993 and Loew 1850

Sister taxa: Helius (Helius), Helius anetae, Helius botswanensis, Helius constenius, Helius formosus, Helius fossilis, Helius gedanicus, Helius hispanicus, Helius hoffeinsorum, Helius krzeminskii, Helius lebanensis, Helius linus, Helius minutus, Helius miocenicus, Helius mutus, Helius pulcher, Helius similis, Helius stavropolensis, Helius tenerus, Helius turolensis, Helius verticillis, Helius weigandi

Type specimen: MZ 7895, an exoskeleton (male fly). Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Berendt collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Berendt collection

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