Cretolimonia mikolajczyki Kopeć et al. 2021 (crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Full reference: K. Kopeć, W. Krzemiński, and A. Soszyńska‑Maj. 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 et al. 2021

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

Type specimen: ISEA MP/4082, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (ISEA Krakow collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (ISEA Krakow collection)

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