Palaeobrachyceron handlirschi Kovalev 1981 (snipe fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Rhagionidae

Full reference: V. G. Kovalev. 1981. The oldest representatives of the Diptera with short antennae from the Jurassic in Siberia. Paleontological Journal 15(3):84-100

Belongs to Palaeobrachyceron according to A. Nagatomi and D. Yang 1998

See also Kovalev 1981

Sister taxa: Palaeobrachyceron hennigi, Palaeobrachyceron nagatomii, Palaeobrachyceron rohdendorfi, Palaeobrachyceron steyskali, Palaeobrachyceron willmanni

Type specimen: PIN 3000/1040, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Novospasskoye village (PIN collection 3000), which is in an Oxfordian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Ichetuy Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Novospasskoye village (PIN collection 3000)

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