Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VI. Oligocene insects from Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 7:453-480
Belongs to Mycomya according to S. S. Oliveira and D. D. S. Amorim 2021
See also Blagoderov 2019 and Cockerell 1921
Sister taxa: Mycomya (Mycomya), Mycomya aristei, Mycomya cockerelli, Mycomya crassicornis, Mycomya curvithoracis, Mycomya fossilis, Mycomya helmii, Mycomya hoolei, Mycomya hubaulti, Mycomya kuhni, Mycomya lithomendax, Mycomya palaeocenica, Mycomya peduncularis, Mycomya reisingeri, Mycomya subquadrata, Mycomya umbonata, Mycomya unicolor, Mycomya vetusta, Mycomyia fulvescens
Type specimen: BMNH I.8973, a wing. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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