Mesoraphidia heteroneura Ren 1997 (snakefly)

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Alternative combination: Grimaldiraphidia heteroneura

Full reference: D. Ren. 1997. Studies on the late Mesozoic snake-flies of China (Raphidoiptera: Baissopteridae, Mesoraphidiidae, Alloraphidiidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 22:172-188

Belongs to Mesoraphidia according to Y. N. Lyu et al. 2020

See also Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger 2011, Engel 2002, Lu et al. 2015, PĂ©rez-de la Fuente et al. 2012 and Ren 1997

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

Type specimen: LB95111, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Beipiao City, unspecified locality (GMC Beijing coll), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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