Insecta - Mecoptera - Bittacidae

Full reference: K. Kopeć, A. Soszyńska-Maj, W. Krzemiński and R. A. Coram. 2016. A new hangingfly (Insecta, Mecoptera, Bittacidae) from the Purbeck Limestone Group (Lower Cretaceous) of southern England and a review of Cretaceous Bittacidae. Cretaceous Research 57:122-130

Belongs to Tytthobittacus according to K. Kopeć et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: ISEA I-F/MP/5/1642/15, a forewing. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Bed DB36c, Hard Cockle Beds, Swanage, which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal marl in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Durlston Bay, Bed DB36c, Hard Cockle Beds, Swanage

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