Lygistorrhina Skuse 1890 (long beaked fungus gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Keroplatidae

Full reference: F. A. A. Skuse. 1890. Diptera of Australia. Nematocera. - Supplement II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Second Series) 5:595-640

Parent taxon: Lygistorrhininae according to M. Mantič et al. 2020

See also Grund 2012 and Stebner and Grimaldi 2017

Sister taxa: Archaeognoriste, Indorrhina, Lebanognoriste, Leptognoriste, Palaeognoriste, Parisognoriste, Plesiognoriste, Protognoriste

Subtaxa: Lygistorrhina caribbiana Lygistorrhina indica

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1 collection)

• Eocene of India (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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