Basilewsky's cranefly (''Dicranomyia basilewskyana'') is an insect species. It was thought to be extinct for 50 years until 2016, when one landed on an entomologist driving a car in

Saint Helena Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constitu ...

.Basilewsky’s cranefly: Insect thought to be extinct for decades lands on expert sent to hunt for it
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References

Limoniidae Insects described in 1977 {{Limoniidae-stub