Insecta - Diptera - Bombyliidae
Alternative combination: Systropus (Systropus) acourti
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 Systropus according to W. KrzemiĆski et al. 2019
See also Cockerell 1921 and Evenhuis and Greathead 1999
Sister taxon: Systropus (Systropus)
Type specimen: BMNH In.17208, a wing. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (A'Court Smith collection), 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 (A'Court Smith collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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