Discovery of the most ancient member of family Tanyderidae (Diptera) from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) of England
Author
Skibińska, Kornelia
Author
Krzemiński, Wiesław
Author
Coram, Robert A.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3857
1
125
130
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3857.1.6
f134bbeb-a658-4640-9687-04a86526fb23
1175-5326
227424
C11922A0-154E-4026-BEA2-261358622FD0
Genus
Nannotanyderus
Ansorge, 1994
Nannotanyderus
comprises five species in addition to the one described herein:
N. krzeminskii
Ansorge, 1994
from the Toarcian of Grimmen and Dobbertin,
Germany
;
N. grimmenensis
Ansorge & Krzemiński, 2002
from the Toarcian of Grimmen;?
N. incertus
Lukashevich, 2011
from the Upper Jurassic of Shar-Teg,
Mongolia
(this is based on an incomplete wing assigned to the genus with some reservation by the original author);
N. kubekovensis
Skibińska & Krzemiński, 2013
from the Upper Jurassic of Karatau,
Kazakhstan
(in Skibińska & Krzemiński, 2013 the specimen locality was incorrectly stated as Kubekovo); and
N. ansorgei
Krzemiński
et al
., 2013
from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Members of this genus are distinguished by their tiny size, with a wing length of
2–4 mm
. Moreover vein Sc does not extend beyond the mid–point of the wing and vein R2 is several times shorter than R2+3.
Type
species.
Nannotanyderus krzeminskii
Ansorge, 1994
; Lower Jurassic (Toarcian),
Germany
(
Fig. 1
).