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 Rymosia according to S. S. Oliveira and D. D. S. Amorim 2021

See also Cockerell 1921

Sister taxa: Rymosia edwardsi, Rymosia foersteri, Rymosia grisea, Rymosia hypnolithica, Rymosia longicalcar, Rymosia miocenica, Rymosia rufescens, Rymosia strangulata

Type specimen: BMNH I.9802, an exoskeleton. 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)

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