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Rediscovered: Permotipula patricia, the oldest known fly

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The author is supported by a Heisen berg fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. P. Whalley invited me to study fossil insects in the British Museum of Natural History. I thank R. Fortey and S. Morris for their assistance during my work in the Department of Palaeontology. P. Dingle, Kiel, linguistically revised the manuscript.

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Willmann, R. Rediscovered: Permotipula patricia, the oldest known fly. Naturwissenschaften 76, 375–377 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00366210

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