Nephrotoma paicheleri Kania and Nel 2013

Insecta - Diptera - Tipulidae

Alternative combination: Tipula (Trichotipula) paicheleri

Full reference: I. Kania and A. Nel. 2013. New fossil Tipulidae from the volcano-sedimentary latest Oligocene of Bes-Konak (Turkey). Polish Journal of Entomology 82:327-338

Belongs to Nephrotoma according to H. de Jong 2019

See also Kania and Nel 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN F.A38735, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bes-Konak, which is in an Aquitanian lacustrine - large diatomite in Turkey.

Distribution: found only at Bes-Konak

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