†Chrysopilus stigmaticus Cockerell 1921 (snipe fly)
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Insecta - Diptera - Rhagionidae
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 Chrysopilus according to W. KrzemiĆski et al. 2019
See also Cockerell 1921
Sister taxa: Chrysopilus anglicus, Chrysopilus meunieri, Chrysopilus praestigmaticus
Type specimen: Hooley H.1395, a wing. Its type locality is Rott (Statz Collection), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - small shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll)
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