Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) meunieri Alexander 1931 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Alternative combinations: Dicranomyia meunieri, Limonia meunieri

Full reference: C. P. Alexander. 1931. Crane-flies of the Baltic Amber (Diptera). Bernstein-Forschungen 2:1-135

Belongs to Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) according to I. Kania 2014

See also Alexander 1931 and Krzemiński 2000

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) grandis, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) indica, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) kalandyki, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lema, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lobata, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) mexa, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) perpendicularis, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) sinuata, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) succinica, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) vella

Type specimen: Klebs 451, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Klebs collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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