Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VI. Oligocene insects from Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 7:453-480
Belongs to Palpomyia according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Cockerell 1921 and Szadziewski 2019
Sister taxa: Palpomyia erikae, Palpomyia freyi, Palpomyia jantari, Palpomyia multispinosa, Palpomyia riedeli, Palpomyia ryshkoffi, Palpomyia shilo, Palpomyia succinea, Palpomyia unca, Palpomyia wirthorum
Type specimen: BMNH I.9757, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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