Insecta - Diptera - Archisargidae
Full reference: K. Y. Zhang, D. Yang, and D. Ren. 2010. Taxonomic names, in An evolutional special case in the lower Orthorrhapha: some attractive fossil flies from the Middle Jurassic of China (Insecta: Diptera: Brachycera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158:563-572
Belongs to Uranorhagio according to J. F. Zhang 2014
See also Zhang 2012 and Zhang et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Uranorhagio asymmetricus, Uranorhagio deviatus
Type specimen: CNU-DIB-NN2007016, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daohugou (CNU 2007 collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Daohugou (CNU 2007 collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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