Protonemestrius magnus Liu and Huang 2018 (tangle-veined fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Nemestrinidae

Full reference: Y. M. Liu and D. Y. Huang. 2018. A large new nemestrinid fly from the lower Cretaceous Yixian formation at Liutiaogou, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, NE China. Cretaceous Research 96:107-112

Belongs to Protonemestrius according to Y. M. Liu and D. Y. Huang 2018

Sister taxa: Protonemestrius beipiaoensis, Protonemestrius bequaerti, Protonemestrius handlirschi, Protonemestrius jurassicus, Protonemestrius martynovi, Protonemestrius rasnitsyni, Protonemestrius rohdendorfi

Type specimen: NIGP167907, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Liutiaogou Village, Dashuangmiao Town (NIGP collection), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Liutiaogou Village, Dashuangmiao Town (NIGP collection)

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