Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae
Synonyms: Acritorhyphus Bode 1953, Metaxybittacus Bode 1953, Palaeolimnobia Bode 1953, Prodocidia Whalley 1985, Proptychoptera Handlirsch 1906
Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640
Parent taxon: Eoptychopterinae according to Y. M. Liu and D. Y. Huang 2020
See also Ansorge 1996, Bode 1953, Carpenter 1992, Evenhuis 1994, Handlirsch 1906, Kalugina 1985, Kalugina 1988, Kopeć et al. 2018, Krzemiński et al. 2015, Lukashevich 2000, Lukashevich 2000, Lukashevich 2020, Lukashevich et al. 1998, Lukashevich and Arillo 2016, Lukashevich et al. 2001, Oliveira and Amorim 2021, Ren and Krzemiński 2002, Whalley 1985 and Willmann 1978
Sister taxa: Architendipes, Crenoptychoptera, Crivoptychoptera, Doptychoptera, Eolimnobia, Eolimnobia geinitzi, Leptychoptera, Nedoptychoptera, Neuseptychoptera, Eoptychopterina
Subtaxa: Eoptychoptera aequidistans Eoptychoptera altaica Eoptychoptera ansorgei Eoptychoptera asiatica Eoptychoptera aucta Eoptychoptera braziliana Eoptychoptera britannica Eoptychoptera cantabrica Eoptychoptera cretacea Eoptychoptera elevata Eoptychoptera eximia Eoptychoptera fasbenderi Eoptychoptera jiyuanensis Eoptychoptera jurassica Eoptychoptera longifurcata Eoptychoptera magna Eoptychoptera maxima Eoptychoptera modica Eoptychoptera paramaculata Eoptychoptera shurabica Eoptychoptera simplex Eoptychoptera spectra Eoptychoptera tempestilla Eoptychoptera vitrea
Type: Eoptychoptera simplex
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1 collection), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (3)
• Jurassic of China (2), Germany (7), Kazakhstan (5), Kyrgyzstan (3), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 31 collections including 44 occurrences
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