Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae

Full reference: I. Fujiyama and Y. Iwao. 1974. Fossil insects from Togo, Kagoshima, Japan (Tertiary insect fauna of Japan, 5). Bulletin of the National Science Museum 17:87-96

Belongs to Penthetria according to I. Fujiyama and Y. Iwao 1974

Sister taxa: Bibio alacris, Bibio gigas, Bibio macer, Bibio minor, Penthetria abacula, Penthetria aestimata, Penthetria alderensis, Penthetria amoena, Penthetria anthracina, Penthetria beskonakensis, Penthetria blanchardi, Penthetria bohemica, Penthetria brevicollis, Penthetria carbonum, Penthetria cimicoides, Penthetria claripennis, Penthetria creedensis, Penthetria egerana, Penthetria elongatipennis, Penthetria fryi, Penthetria fuchsi, Penthetria gigantea, Penthetria globularis, Penthetria gracilis, Penthetria graciliventris, Penthetria immutabilis, Penthetria imperialis, Penthetria incerta, Penthetria integroneura, Penthetria intermedia, Penthetria longa, Penthetria longifurca, Penthetria longiventris, Penthetria luberonica, Penthetria lugens, Penthetria montanaregis, Penthetria murchisonii, Penthetria nervisinuata, Penthetria nigra, Penthetria parschlugiana, Penthetria rubescens, Penthetria rubiensis, Penthetria subterranea, Penthetria tropica, Penthetria velutina, Penthetria whipsawensis, Protomyia grossa, Protomyia matheroni, Protomyia stygia, Bibiopsis funebris, Bibiopsis murchisonii

Type specimen: CESES 20002, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Kasayama, Inobo, Torimaru village (Togo), which is in a Piacenzian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Togo Formation of Japan.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Kasayama, Inobo, Torimaru village (Togo)

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