Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1877. The insects of the Tertiary beds at Quesnel (British Colombia). Report of Progress of the Geological Survey of Canada 1875-1876 266-280

Belongs to Brachypeza according to S. S. Oliveira and D. D. S. Amorim 2021

See also Johannsen 1909, Scudder 1877 and Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Brachypeza abita, Brachypeza graciosa, Brachypeza grandis

Type specimen: GSC 4, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Quesnel, which is in a Priabonian lacustrine shale in the Australian Creek Formation of Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Quesnel

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