Insecta - Diptera - Chaoboridae
Synonyms: Chironomaptera shouchangensis Lin 1980, Petiolatendipes shouchangensis Lin 1980
Full reference: N. S. Kalugina. 1980. Komary Chaoboridae and Chironomidae iz nizhnemelovykh otlozheniy Manlaya. Rannemelovoe Ozero Manlay, Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya Trudy 13:61-64
Belongs to Chironomaptera according to A. Borkent 2014
See also Evenhuis 1994, Kalugina 1980, Kalugina 1986, Kalugina 1993, Lin 1980 and Zhang et al. 1986
Sister taxa: Chironomaptera bucucunica, Chironomaptera collessi, Chironomaptera gobiensis, Chironomaptera gregaria, Chironomaptera karabonica, Chironomaptera scobloi
Type specimens:
- Chironomaptera vesca: PIN 3568/742, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Manlay, outcrop I/22 (PIN collection 3568), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large siliciclastic in the Mogotuin Formation of Mongolia.
- Petiolatendipes shouchangensis: Its type locality is ZH47, Baishuiling, east Shouchang, which is in an Aptian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Shouchang Formation of China.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (3 collections), Mongolia (7), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 11 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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