Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Alternative combination: Ataracta grandis
Full reference: F. Meunier. 1899. Révision des diptères fossiles types de Loew conservés au Musée Provincial de Koenigsberg. Miscellanea Entomologica 7:169-182
Belongs to Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) according to I. Kania 2014
See also Meunier 1899
Sister taxa: Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) alexandri, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) aliena, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) brodiei, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) chiapa, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) ewa, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) excavata, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) fasciata, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) fera, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) freiwaldi, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) gorskii, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) graciosa, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) indica, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) kalandyki, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lema, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lobata, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) meunieri, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) mexa, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) perpendicularis, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) sinuata, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) succinica, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) vella
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Berendt collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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