Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Full reference: S. Podenas and G. O. Poinar. 2012. New short-palped crane flies (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Mexican amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 114:347-371
Belongs to Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) according to S. Podenas and G. O. Poinar 2012
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) meunieri, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) mexa, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) perpendicularis, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) podenasi, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) sinuata, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) succinica
Type specimen: Poinar MI-23-58, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Mexican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Mexican amber (Poinar coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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