Yanoraphidia gaoi Ren 1995 (snakefly)

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Alternative combinations: Grimaldiraphidia gaoi, Mesoraphidia gaoi

Full reference: D. Ren. 1995. Insecta. Faunae and stratigraphy of Jurassic-Cretaceous in Beijing and the adjacent areas 47-121

Belongs to Yanoraphidia according to Y. N. Lu et al. 2015

See also Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger 2011, Engel 2002, PĂ©rez-de la Fuente et al. 2012, Ren 1995 and Ren 1997

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CH93020/1, a forewing. Its type locality is Gaositai railway station, Chengde City, which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Gaositai railway station, Chengde City

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