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A NEW CRETACEOUS BIBIONID FROM CANADIAN AMBER (DIPTERA: BIBIONIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

B. V. Peterson
B. V. Peterson
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa
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Abstract

Plecia myersi n. sp. is described from remains found in Canadian Amber, of Upper Cretaceous age, from Cedar Lake, Manitoba. This specimen is the oldest positively identified fossil of the Bibionidae, and demonstrates the family existed in the Mesozoic Era in a form much like modern species.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 107 , Issue 7 , July 1975 , pp. 711 - 715
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1975

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