Cretaceous Diptera From Orapa, Botswana.
Date
1990
Authors
Waters, Saskia
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Abstract
An assemblage of Cretaceous, Diptera, recovered from the
sediments of the Orapa Diamond mine, Botswana, is described.
The fossil Diptera are placed In the following families:
Tipulidae, Empididae, Hybotidae, Bibionidae, and possibly the
Mycetophilidae, Rhagionidae and Anisopodidae. A new pulid
species, Helius botswanensis (Tipulidae, subfamily Limoniinae),
is described; it is the oldest representative of the
subfamily. (Abbreviation abstract)
Description
A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF SClENCE,
UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG, FOR THE
DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY.
Keywords
Diptera, Fossil. , Paleontology -- Botswana -- Orapa. , Paleontology -- Cretaceous.