Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae
Synonyms: Acritorhyphus ramosus Bode 1953, Eoptychoptera liasina Handlirsch 1906, Proptychoptera liasina Handlirsch 1906, Proptychoptera maculata Handlirsch 1920, Proptychoptera megapolitana Handlirsch 1939, Proptychoptera minor Bode 1953, Proptychoptera ovalis Bode 1953, Proptychoptera similis Handlirsch 1939
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
Belongs to Eoptychoptera according to K. Kopeć et al. 2018
See also Ansorge 1996, Bode 1953, Evenhuis 1994, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1939, Kalugina 1985, Lukashevich et al. 1998, Lukashevich and Arillo 2016 and Lukashevich et al. 2001
Sister taxa: 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 spectra, Eoptychoptera tempestilla, Eoptychoptera vitrea
Type specimens:
- Eoptychoptera simplex: GPIG 120/5, a wing. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany.
- Acritorhyphus ramosus: GPIC Cl 360, a wing.
- Proptychoptera liasina: GPI EMAU 122/80, a wing. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany.
- Proptychoptera maculata: GPI EMAU 123/97, a wing. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany.
- Proptychoptera megapolitana: GPI EMAU 123/99, a wing. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany.
- Proptychoptera minor: GPIC Cl 360, a wing.
- Proptychoptera ovalis: FIS W 19, a wing.
- Proptychoptera similis: GPI EMAU 123/98, a wing. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (6 collections)
Total: 6 collections including 10 occurrences
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