Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Full reference: I. Kania, W. Krzemiński, and A. Arillo. 2018. A new peculiar species of the genus Helius Lepeletier & Serville, 1828 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Cretaceous Alava amber (Spain). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107:231-237

Belongs to Helius (Helius) according to I. Kania et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Helius (Helius) alavensis, Helius (Helius) collemus, Helius (Helius) edmundi, Helius (Helius) ewa, Helius (Helius) neali, Helius (Helius) oosterbroeki, Helius (Helius) popovi, Helius (Helius) qinghai, Helius (Helius) vectensis

Type specimen: MCNA 15078, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Peñacerrada outcrop I, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Escucha Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Peñacerrada outcrop I

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