Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Full reference: I. Kania and J. Szwedo. 2015. Taxonomic names, in Dicranoptycha Osten Sacken, 1860 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from the earliest Cenomanian Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 52:522-530
Belongs to Dicranoptycha according to J. Q. Gao et al. 2016
See also Kania and Szwedo 2015
Sister taxa: Dicranoptycha anna, Dicranoptycha electrina, Dicranoptycha europaea, Dicranoptycha fragmentata, Dicranoptycha germana, Dicranoptycha lignitica, Dicranoptycha megaphallus, Dicranoptycha osata, Dicranoptycha plicativa, Dicranoptycha rottensis, Dicranoptycha staryi
Type specimen: NIGP 156981, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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