Mesopleciella lepida Kovalev 1990

Insecta - Diptera - Protopleciidae

Alternative combination: Bryanka lepida

Full reference: V. G. Kovalev. 1990. Diptera, Muscida, in Pozdne-Mezozoyskie Nasekomye Vostochnogo Zabaykal'ya. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 239:123-177

Belongs to Mesopleciella according to V. A. Blagoderov 1996

See also Kovalev 1990

Sister taxa: Mesopleciella incorporalis, Mesopleciella longipennis, Mesopleciella minor, Mesopleciella phryneoides

Type specimen: PIN 3063/1167, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daya locality, outcrop 66/4 (PIN collection 3063), which is in a Tithonian terrestrial horizon in the Glushkovo Formation of the Russian Federation.

Distribution: found only at Daya locality, outcrop 66/4 (PIN collection 3063)

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