Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Full reference: C. von Heyden and L. von Heyden. 1865. Bibioniden aus der Rheinischen Braunkohle von Rott. Palaeontographica 14:19-30

Belongs to Protomyia according to C. von Heyden and L. von Heyden 1865

See also Evenhuis 1994, Förster 1891, Skartveit and Wedmann 2021 and Statz 1943

Sister taxa: Bibio alacris, Bibio gigas, Bibio macer, Bibio minor, Penthetria abacula, Penthetria aestimata, Penthetria alderensis, Penthetria amoena, Penthetria anthracina, Penthetria beskonakensis, Penthetria blanchardi, Penthetria bohemica, Penthetria brevicollis, Penthetria carbonum, Penthetria cimicoides, Penthetria claripennis, Penthetria creedensis, Penthetria egerana, Penthetria elongatipennis, Penthetria fryi, Penthetria fuchsi, Penthetria gigantea, Penthetria globularis, Penthetria gracilis, Penthetria graciliventris, Penthetria immutabilis, Penthetria imperialis, Penthetria incerta, Penthetria integroneura, Penthetria intermedia, Penthetria longa, Penthetria longifurca, Penthetria longiventris, Penthetria luberonica, Penthetria lugens, Penthetria montanaregis, Penthetria murchisonii, Penthetria nervisinuata, Penthetria nigra, Penthetria parschlugiana, Penthetria rubescens, Penthetria rubiensis, Penthetria subterranea, Penthetria togoensis, Penthetria tropica, Penthetria velutina, Penthetria whipsawensis, Protomyia stygia, Protomyia matheroni, Bibiopsis murchisonii, Bibiopsis funebris

Type specimen: NHMUK In 58791, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rott (Krantz Bonn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rott (Krantz Bonn coll)

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