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Tanypus obscurus

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Taxonomy
Pelopia obscura was named by Statz (1944). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Statz Collection), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - small shale in the Rott Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Tanypus obscurus by Evenhuis (1994).