Mesorhyphus rhaeticus Rohdendorf 1962 (wood gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Anisopodidae

Alternative combination: Protolbiogaster rhaetica

Full reference: B. B. Rohdendorf. 1962. Order Diptera. Osnovy Paleontologii. Tom 9: Chlenistonogie, Trakheinye i Khelitserovye 307-344

Belongs to Mesorhyphus according to N. L. Evenhuis 1994

See also Amorim and Tozoni 1994, Rohdendorf 1962 and Rohdendorf 1964

Sister taxa: Mesorhyphus blagoderovi, Mesorhyphus clavipes, Mesorhyphus handlirschi, Mesorhyphus hennigi, Mesorhyphus nanus, Mesorhyphus ulrichi, Mesorhyphus zirzipanus

Type specimen: PIN 371/114, a wing. Its type locality is Ak-Bulak-Say, Sogjuta, Issyk-Kul (PIN Collection 371), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Dzhil Formation of Kyrgyzstan.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Ak-Bulak-Say, Sogjuta, Issyk-Kul (PIN Collection 371)

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