Cretolimonia dayana Kopeć 2021 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Full reference: K. Kopeć. 2021. Taxonomic names, in Morphology of the oldest fossil subfamily of Limoniidae (Diptera, Architipulinae) in the light of exceptionally preserved Mesozoic material. Scientific Reports 11(24137)

Belongs to Cretolimonia according to K. Kopeć 2021

Sister taxa: Cretolimonia excelsa, Cretolimonia jurassica, Cretolimonia lukashevichae, Cretolimonia mikolajczyki, Cretolimonia popovi, Cretolimonia pseudojurassica, Cretolimonia pygmaea

Type specimen: PIN 3063/1208, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daya locality (PIN collection 3063), which is in a Tithonian terrestrial horizon in the Glushkovo Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Daya locality (PIN collection 3063)

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