Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Full reference: I. Kania and K. Kopeć. 2016. Taxonomic names, in Helius anetae sp. nov. (Diptera: Limoniidae), a new representative of the genus from the Eocene Baltic amber. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 281:101-109
Belongs to Helius according to I. Kania and K. Kopeć 2016
Sister taxa: Helius (Helius), Helius botswanensis, Helius constenius, Helius formosus, Helius fossilis, Helius gedanicus, Helius hispanicus, Helius hoffeinsorum, Helius krzeminskii, Helius lebanensis, Helius linus, Helius minutus, Helius miocenicus, Helius mutus, Helius pulcher, Helius similis, Helius stavropolensis, Helius tenerus, Helius turolensis, Helius verticillis, Helius weigandi, Rhamphidia minuta
Type specimen: ISEA MP/3499, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, ISEA Krakow collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, ISEA Krakow collection
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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