Crenoptychoptera gaoi Liu and Huang 2021 (phantom crane fly)

Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae

Full reference: Y. M. Liu and D. Y. Huang. 2021. A new species of Crenoptychoptera Kalugina, 1985 (Diptera: Ptychopteridae) from the Middle-Late Jurassic of Jiyuan Basin, China. Palaeoentomology 4:27-29

Belongs to Crenoptychoptera according to Y. M. Liu and D. Y. Huang 2021

Sister taxa: Crenoptychoptera antica, Crenoptychoptera bavarica, Crenoptychoptera conspecta, Crenoptychoptera decorosa, Crenoptychoptera defossa, Crenoptychoptera dobbertinensis, Crenoptychoptera gronskayae, Crenoptychoptera liturata

Type specimen: NIGP174354, 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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