Limonia deferi Theobald 1937 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Alternative combination: Limnobia deferi

Full reference: N. Theobald. 1937. Les insectes fossiles des terrains oligocènes de France. Bulletin Mensuel (Mémoires) de la Société des Sciences de Nancy 1:1-473

Belongs to Limonia according to N. L. Evenhuis 1994

See also Theobald 1937

Sister taxa: Limonia albertensis, Limonia antiqua, Limonia cingulata, Limonia deleta, Limonia dillonae, Limonia formosa, Limonia horioni, Limonia luca, Limonia murchisoni, Limonia pertinax, Limonia skalskii, Limonia spilota, Limonia tenuis, Limonia theobaldi, Limonia vetusta

Type specimen: Bale Museum R 497, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Kleinkembs, which is in a Rupelian lacustrine - large marl/limestone in the Salt Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Kleinkembs

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