Mesorhyphus blagoderovi Wojtoń et al. 2019 (wood gnat)

Insecta - Diptera - Anisopodidae

Full reference: M. Wojtoń, I. Kania, W. Krzemiński and D. Ren. 2019. Phylogenetic relationships within the superfamily Anisopodoidea (Diptera: Nematocera), with description of new Jurassic species. Palaeoentomology 2:119-139

Belongs to Mesorhyphus according to M. Wojtoń et al. 2019

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

Type specimen: CNU-DIP-NN2019003, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Daohugou (CNU 2019 collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Daohugou (CNU 2019 collection)

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