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Limonia deferi

Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae

Taxonomy
Limnobia deferi was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Bale Museum R 497, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Kleinkembs, which is in a Rupelian lacustrine - large marl/limestone in the Salt Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Limonia deferi by Evenhuis (1994).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Limnobia deferi Theobald p. 236 figs. Pl XVIII fig 3, 3a
1994Limonia deferi Evenhuis p. 76

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderTipulomorpha
superfamilyTipuloidea
familyLimoniidae
subfamilyLimoniinae
genusLimonia
speciesdeferi()

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Limonia deferi Theobald 1937
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Diagnosis
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