Insecta - Diptera - Chaoboridae

Full reference: P. A. Jell and P. M. Duncan. 1986. Invertebrates, mainly insects, from the freshwater, Lower Cretaceous, Koonwarra Fossil Bed (Korumburra Group), South Gippsland, Victoria. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 3:111-205

Belongs to Chironomaptera according to A. Borkent 2014

See also Jell and Duncan 1986

Sister taxa: Chironomaptera bucucunica, Chironomaptera gobiensis, Chironomaptera gregaria, Chironomaptera karabonica, Chironomaptera scobloi, Chironomaptera vesca

Type specimen: NMVP103207, an other (pupa). Its type locality is NMVPL425, Koonwarra, which is in an Aptian pond claystone/siltstone in Australia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at NMVPL425, Koonwarra

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