Ororaphidia megalocephala Engel and Ren 2008 (snakefly)

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel and D. Ren. 2008. New snakeflies from the Jiulongshan Formation of Inner Mongolia, China (Raphidioptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 81(3):188-193

Belongs to Ororaphidia according to Y. N. Lyu et al. 2017

See also Engel and Ren 2008 and Lu et al. 2015

Sister taxon: Ororaphidia bifurcata

Type specimen: CNU NNS-200201, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daohugou (CNU 2002 collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Jurassic of China (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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