Insecta - Diptera - Archisargidae
Alternative combination: Archisargus spuriventris
Full reference: K. Y. Zhang, D. Yang, D. Ren and C. K. Shih. 2007. The earliest species of the extinct genus Archisargus from China (Diptera: Brachycera: Archisargidae). Annales Zoologici 57:827-832
Belongs to Archisargus according to D. A. Grimaldi and P. Barden 2016
See also Oberprieler and Yeates 2012, Zhang 2014 and Zhang et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Archisargus aequinervus, Archisargus maximus, Archisargus pulcher, Archisargus strigatus
Type specimen: CNU-DB-NN2007002, 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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