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Luanpingites flavus

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Taxonomy
Luanpingites flavus was named by Zhang (1986). Its type specimen is Shandong Provincial Museum L80648, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Zhouyingzi village, Luoping County (Shandong Museum collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Jiulongshan Formation of China.