Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae
Alternative combination: Phronia virgata
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VI. Oligocene insects from Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 7:453-480
Belongs to Coelosia according to V. Blagoderov 2019
See also Cockerell 1921 and Oliveira and Amorim 2021
Sister taxon: Coelosia aberrans
Type specimen: BMNH I.9789, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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