Proptychopterina mongolica Kalugina 1988 (phantom crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae

Full reference: N. S. Kalugina. 1988. Mezozojskie psixodomorfnye i tipulomorfnye dvukrylye nasekomye (Tanyderidae, Eoptychopteridae, Limoniidae: Diptera). Novye Iskopaemykh Bespozvonochnykh Mongolii, Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 33:81-88

Belongs to Proptychopterina according to N. S. Kalugina 1988

Sister taxa: Proptychopterina amota, Proptychopterina evecta, Proptychopterina gracilis, Proptychopterina handlirschi, Proptychopterina immensa, Proptychopterina makarova, Proptychopterina oleynikovi, Proptychopterina opinata, Proptychopterina sharategica, Proptychopterina tenera, Proptychopterina yeniseica

Type specimen: PIN 3688/1657, an exoskeleton (abdomen & broken wings). Its type locality is Houtiyn-Hotgor Depression (outcrop 296/14), which is in a Tithonian lacustrine shale in the Ulaan-Ereg Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Houtiyn-Hotgor Depression (outcrop 296/14)

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