Mesorhyphus Handlirsch 1920 (wood gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Anisopodidae

Synonyms: Eoplecia Handlirsch 1920, Protolbiogaster Rohdendorf 1962

Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1920. Palaeontologie. Handbuch der Entomologie 3:117-208

Parent taxon: Olbiogastrinae according to M. Wojtoń et al. 2019

See also Amorim and Tozoni 1994, Ansorge 1996, Ansorge and Krzemiński 1995, Carpenter 1992, Edwards 1928, Kopeć et al. 2018, Kovalev 1990, Lukashevich 2012 and Rohdendorf 1962

Sister taxa: Cretolbia, Megarhyphus, Olbiogaster, Pachyrhyphus, Pseudadonia, Thiras

Subtaxa: Mesorhyphus blagoderovi Mesorhyphus clavipes Mesorhyphus handlirschi Mesorhyphus hennigi Mesorhyphus nanus Mesorhyphus rhaeticus Mesorhyphus ulrichi Mesorhyphus zirzipanus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1 collection)

• Jurassic of China (1), Germany (3), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 9 collections including 12 occurrences

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