Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae
Full reference: D. Ren and W. Krzemiński. 2002. Eoptychopteridae (Diptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China. Annales Zoologici 52:207-210
Belongs to Eoptychoptera according to E. D. Lukashevich and A. Arillo 2016
See also Ren and Krzemiński 2002
Sister taxa: Eoptychoptera aequidistans, Eoptychoptera altaica, Eoptychoptera ansorgei, Eoptychoptera asiatica, Eoptychoptera aucta, Eoptychoptera braziliana, Eoptychoptera britannica, Eoptychoptera cantabrica, Eoptychoptera cretacea, Eoptychoptera elevata, Eoptychoptera eximia, Eoptychoptera fasbenderi, Eoptychoptera jiyuanensis, Eoptychoptera longifurcata, Eoptychoptera magna, Eoptychoptera maxima, Eoptychoptera modica, Eoptychoptera paramaculata, Eoptychoptera shurabica, Eoptychoptera simplex, Eoptychoptera spectra, Eoptychoptera tempestilla, Eoptychoptera vitrea
Type specimen: CNU BCD 2006, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daohugou (CNU collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Daohugou (CNU collection)
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