Protorhagio capitatus Rohdendorf 1938 (snipe fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Rhagionidae

Full reference: B. B. Rohdendorf. 1938. Dvukrylye basekomye Mezozoya Kara-Tau. I. Brachycera i chast' Nematocera. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7:29-67

Belongs to Protorhagio according to M. B. Mostovski 2008

See also Nagatomi and Yang 1998 and Rohdendorf 1938

Sister taxa: Protorhagio karataviensis, Protorhagio parvus, Protorhagio ponomarenkoi, Protorhagio ruptus

Type specimen: PIN 2452/400, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Karabastau (PIN collection 2452), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Karatau-Karabastau (PIN collection 2452)

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