Insecta - Diptera - Bibionidae
Full reference: J. Skartveit and M. Pika. 2014. Revision of Bibionidae (Diptera) named by Oswald Heer from the Miocene of Öhningen, southern Germany. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 87:103-134
Belongs to Dilophus according to J. Skartveit and M. Pika 2014
Sister taxa: Dilophus anasiformis, Dilophus andrewrossi, Dilophus campbelli, Dilophus cerestensis, Dilophus crassicornis, Dilophus duerrenfeldti, Dilophus flavipes, Dilophus idanos, Dilophus krantzii, Dilophus luteipennis, Dilophus magnus, Dilophus matilei, Dilophus palaeofebrilis, Dilophus pinguis, Dilophus plionanus, Dilophus priscus, Dilophus succineus
Type specimen: ETHZ Pl. I 886, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oeningen (Zurich collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Oeningen (Zurich collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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