Megarhyphus Kovalev 1990 (wood gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Anisopodidae

Full reference: V. G. Kovalev. 1990. Diptera, Muscida, in Pozdne-Mezozoyskie Nasekomye Vostochnogo Zabaykal'ya. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 239:123-177

Parent taxon: Olbiogastrinae according to E. KrzemiƄska et al. 2010

See also Kovalev 1990 and Zhang 2007

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

Subtaxa: Megarhyphus amberae Megarhyphus rarus Megarhyphus rectinervis Megarhyphus sophiae

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Type: Megarhyphus sophiae

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

• Jurassic of China (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence

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