Eoptychoptera jiyuanensis Liu and Huang 2020 (phantom crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae

Full reference: Y. M. Liu and D. Y. Huang. 2020. New materials of trichocerid and ptychopterid dipterans from the earliest Late Jurassic of Jiyuan Basin, China. Palaeoentomology 3:461-465

Belongs to Eoptychoptera according to Y. M. Liu and D. Y. Huang 2020

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 jurassica, Eoptychoptera longifurcata, Eoptychoptera magna, Eoptychoptera maxima, Eoptychoptera modica, Eoptychoptera paramaculata, Eoptychoptera shurabica, Eoptychoptera simplex, Eoptychoptera spectra, Eoptychoptera tempestilla, Eoptychoptera vitrea

Type specimen: NIGP173564, a wing. Its type locality is Anyao, Jiyuan City, which is in a Callovian lacustrine shale in the Yangshuzhuang Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Anyao, Jiyuan City

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