Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Full reference: W. Krzemiński, I. Kania, and D. Azar. 2014. The Early Cretaceous evidence of rapid evolution of the genus Helius Lepeletier and Serville, 1828 (Limoniidae, Diptera). Cretaceous Research 48:96-101

Belongs to Helius (Helius) according to W. Krzemiński et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Helius (Helius) alavensis, Helius (Helius) collemus, Helius (Helius) edmundi, Helius (Helius) neali, Helius (Helius) oosterbroeki, Helius (Helius) popovi, Helius (Helius) qinghai, Helius (Helius) spiralis, Helius (Helius) vectensis

Type specimen: Azar 1670, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)

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