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First crane fly from the Upper Jurassic of Australia (Diptera: Limoniidae)
Stefanie K Oberprieler1, Wiesław Krzemiński2, Jack Hinde3
1CSIRO Land & Water, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, PMB 44 Winnellie, Darwin, N.T. 0822, Australia.;
Zootaxa
|December 2, 2015
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.
