Limonia pertinax Westwood 1854 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Alternative combination: Corethrium pertinax

Full reference: J. O. Westwood. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10:378-396

Belongs to Limonia according to N. L. Evenhuis 1994

See also Handlirsch 1906, Scudder 1885 and Westwood 1854

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

Type specimen: Its type locality is Swanage/Purbeck (DORCM/BMNH) [C. Willcox Collection], which is in a Berriasian fluvial-lacustrine limestone in the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Swanage/Purbeck (DORCM/BMNH) [C. Willcox Collection]

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