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Issue: Vol. 4021 No. 1: 24 Sept. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-09-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.1.8
Page range: 178–186
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

First crane fly from the Upper Jurassic of Australia (Diptera: Limoniidae)

CSIRO Land & Water, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, PMB 44 Winnellie, Darwin, N.T. 0822, Australia.
Pedagogical University of Cracow, 30-084 Krakow, Poland.
Bomaderry High School Science Faculty, PO Box 2146, Bomaderry, N.S.W. 2541.
CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia.
Diptera Lower Diptera Talbragar Fish Bed new genus new species Eotipulinae Eotipula fossil insects

Abstract

The first crane fly (Diptera: Tipuloidea) fossil discovered in the Upper Jurassic Talbragar Fish Bed in Australia is described and illustrated. Eotipula grangeri sp. nov., described from a single specimen, is assigned to the family Limoniidae based primarily on the conformation of wing veins. It is the second and oldest record of Limoniidae from Australia, and the first of Jurassic age from the southern hemisphere.