Dixa minuta Meunier 1906 (meniscus midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Dixidae

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1906. Monographie des Tipulidae et des Dixidae de l'ambre de la Baltique. Annales de Science Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 9 4:349-401

Belongs to Dixa according to D. E. Greenwalt and J. K. Moulton 2016

See also Hennig 1966 and Meunier 1906

Sister taxon: Dixa tertiaria

Type specimen: Konigsberg 7080, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Göttingen GZG collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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