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Issue: Vol. 5396 No. 1: 29 Dec. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-12-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5396.1.11
Page range: 58-63
Abstract views: 181
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The first Early Cretaceous representative of the fly family Tipulidae from the lower Barremian dysodiles of Lebanon (Diptera)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Nanjing; Jiangsu; 210008; China; Department of Natural Sciences; Faculty of Sciences II; Lebanese University; P.O. Box: 26110217; Fanar; Matn; Lebanon
Institut de Systématique; Evolution; Biodiversité; ISYEB - UMR 7205 - CNRS; MNHN; UPMC; EPHE; Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle; Sorbonne Universités; 57 Rue Cuvier; CP 50; Entomologie; F-75005; Paris; France
Diptera Insecta Tipuloidea Tipulinae Early Cretaceous biogeography

Abstract

Leptotarsus reyi sp. nov., first representative of the family Tipulidae from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon, is characterised, described and illustrated from the Early Barremian dysodile of Jdeidet Bkassine, South Lebanon.

 

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