Mesoraphidia similis Martynov 1925 (snakefly)

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1925. To the knowledge of fossil insects from Jurassic beds in Turkestan. 1. Raphidioptera. Izvestiya Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk 19(6-8):233-246

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

See also Engel 2002 and Martynov 1925

Sister taxa: Mesoraphidia amoena, Mesoraphidia baekthoensis, Mesoraphidia daohugouensis, Mesoraphidia durlstonensis, Mesoraphidia ednae, Mesoraphidia elongata, Mesoraphidia furcivenata, Mesoraphidia gobiensis, Mesoraphidia grandis, Mesoraphidia heteroneura, Mesoraphidia hilli, Mesoraphidia inaequalis, Mesoraphidia koreensis, Mesoraphidia longistigmosa, Mesoraphidia medialis, Mesoraphidia phantasma, Mesoraphidia polyphlebia, Mesoraphidia pterostigmalis, Mesoraphidia ryonsangensis, Mesoraphidia shangyuanensis, Mesoraphidia sinica, Mesoraphidia websteri

Type specimen: PIN 1775/2, a wing (fore & hindwing). Its type locality is Karatau-Galkino (PIN collection 2452), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Karatau-Galkino (PIN collection 2452)

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