Greniera affinis Meunier 1904

Insecta - Diptera - Simuliidae

Alternative combinations: Simulia affinis, Simulium affine

Synonym: Simulium meunieri Smart 1944 [objective synonym]

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1904. Beitrag zur Fauna der Bibioniden, Simuliden und Rhyphiden des Bernsteins. Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt und Bergakadamie 24:392-404

Belongs to Greniera according to A. Pielowska et al. 2018

See also Crosskey 2002, Evenhuis 1994, Meunier 1904 and Perkovsky and Sukhomlin 2015

Sister taxa: Greniera importuna, Greniera pulchella, Greniera ukrainica, Greniera yankovskyi

Type specimens:

  • Greniera affinis: GZG Z.7919, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
  • Simulium meunieri:

Distribution:

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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