Palaeopetia laiyangensis Zhang 1987 (ironic fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Ironomyiidae

Full reference: J. F. Zhang. 1987. Four new genera of Platypezidae. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 26:595-603

Belongs to Palaeopetia according to D. A. Grimaldi 2018

See also Zhang 1987

Sister taxa: Palaeopetia armata, Palaeopetia asaetigera, Palaeopetia bellula, Palaeopetia commemorabilis, Palaeopetia dorsalis, Palaeopetia gemina, Palaeopetia lata, Palaeopetia longisaetigera, Palaeopetia mina, Palaeopetia minor, Palaeopetia terminus, Palaeopetia tertia, Palaeopetia volacris

Type specimen: Shandong Provincial Museum L84130, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Nanligezhuang, Tuanwang Town, Laiyang City (Shandong Prov. Mus.), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large shale in the Laiyang Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Nanligezhuang, Tuanwang Town, Laiyang City (Shandong Prov. Mus.)

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