Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Full reference: K. Kopeć, W. Krzemiński, and I. Kania-Kłosok. 2025. Taxonomic names, in First evidence of Limoniidae (Diptera: Nematocera) in French amber from Oise. Scientific Reports 15(14472)

Belongs to Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) according to K. Kopeć et al. 2025

Sister taxa: Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) alexandri, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) aliena, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) brodiei, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) chiapa, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) ewa, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) excavata, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) fasciata, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) fera, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) freiwaldi, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) gorskii, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) graciosa, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) grandis, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) indica, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) kalandyki, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lema, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) lobata, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) meunieri, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) mexa, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) perpendicularis, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) sinuata, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) succinica, Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) vella

Type specimen: MNHN.F.A97853, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.