Brachypremna gurnetensis Cockerell 1921 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Tipulidae

Alternative combination: Megistocera gurnetensis

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 Brachypremna according to W. KrzemiƄski 2019

See also Cockerell 1921 and Krzemiński 1996

Sister taxa: Brachypremna brodzinskii, Brachypremna chenhuameii

Type specimen: BMNH In. 17090, 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)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.