Archeraphidia hosbayari Ponomarenko 1988 (snakefly)

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1988. Novye Mezozojskie Nasekomye. Novye Iskopaemykh Bespozvonochnykh Mongolii, Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 33:71-80

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

See also Engel 2002 and Ponomarenko 1988

Sister taxa: Archeraphidia baisensis, Archeraphidia yakowlewi

Type specimen: PIN 3559/5948, a hindwing (missing base). Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559), which is in an Aptian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559)

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