Gonomyia (Azaria) libanensis Kania et al. 2015 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Full reference: I. Kania, W. Krzemiński, and E. Krzemińska. 2015. The oldest representative of the genus Gonomyia (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Lebanese amber (Lower Cretaceous): New subgenus and species. Cretaceous Research 52:516-521

Belongs to Gonomyia (Azaria) according to I. Kania et al. 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Azar 265, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)

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