Phylidorea Bigot 1854

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Alternative spelling: Limnophila (Phylidorea)

Full reference: J. M. F. Bigot. 1854. Essai d’une classification générale et synoptique de l’ordre des insectes diptères. 3e mémoire. Annales de la Société Scientifique de France, Troisième Série 2:447-482

Parent taxon: Limnophilinae according to G. C. Ribeiro 2008

See also Alexander 1931, Bigot 1854 and Evenhuis 1994

Sister taxa: Afrolimnophila, Austrolimnophila, Eloeophila, Gurnardia, Gynoplistia, Hexatoma, Limnophila, Pilaria, Polymera, Pseudolimnophila, Tonnoirella, Neolimnomyia, Epiphragma

Subtaxa: Phylidorea pulchripennis Phylidorea servilis

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Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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