†Megarhyphus rectinervis Kovalev 1990 (wood gnat)
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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
Belongs to Megarhyphus according to J. Zhang 2007
See also Kovalev 1990
Sister taxa: Megarhyphus amberae, Megarhyphus rarus, Megarhyphus sophiae
Type specimen: PIN 4099/31, a wing. Its type locality is Onokhoy (PIN collection 4099), which is in an Aptian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Godymboyskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Onokhoy (PIN collection 4099)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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