Mesopsychoda Brauer et al. 1889 (moth fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Full reference: F. Brauer, J. Redtenbacher, and L. Ganglbauer. 1889. Fossile Insekten aus der Juraformation Ost-Sibiriens. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, VII Série 36(15):1-22

Parent taxon: Psychodidae according to N. L. Evenhuis 1994

See also Brauer et al. 1889 and Handlirsch 1906

Sister taxa: Bamara, Bruchomyiinae, Cretapsychoda, Culex proavitus, Datziinae, Eochaoborites, Eophlebotomus, Horaiellinae, Liassopsychodina, Libanopsychoda, Paraculicoides, Paraculicoides rouseae, Phlebotominae, Plebotomites, Plebotomus, Posthon, Psychodinae, Psychodites, Sycoracinae, Tanyderinae, Tanypsycha, Triassopsychoda, Trichomyiinae, Xenopsychoda, Tanyderites, Protoplasa

Subtaxa: Mesopsychoda dasyptera

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Ust-Baley Locality (Czekanowski collection) (Jurassic of Russian Federation)

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