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Eoptychoptera jurassica

Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae

Taxonomy
Eoptychoptera jurassica was named by Ren and Krzemiński (2002). Its type specimen is CNU BCD 2006, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Daohugou (CNU collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.