Trichocera ebenos Podenas 2001 (winter crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Trichoceridae

Alternative combination: Trichocera (Oligotrichocera) ebenos

Full reference: S. Podenas. 2001. Trichoceridae (Diptera) from Baltic amber (Eocene) in the collection of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Bulletin de la Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles 124:131-147

Belongs to Trichocera according to E. Krzemińska et al. 2009

See also Podenas 2001

Sister taxa: Trichocera (Trichocera), Trichocera christelae, Trichocera corami, Trichocera cretacea, Trichocera fujiyamai, Trichocera hanswerneri, Trichocera miocaenica, Trichocera scudderi, Trichocera turgana, Trichocera (Oligotrichocera) antiqua

Type specimen: MHNN 1355, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (MHNN Neuchatel collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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