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Mesomphrale asiaticum

Insecta - Diptera

Taxonomy
Mesomphrale asiatica was named by Hong and Wang (1990). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is 84GTN4, Nanligezhuang, Tuanwang Town, Laiyang City, which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large shale in the Laiyang Formation of China. It is the type species of Mesomphrale.

It was corrected as Mesomphrale asiaticum by Nagatomi and Yang (1998).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Mesomphrale asiatica Hong and Wang p. 156 figs. Pl 23, fig 3; text-figs 6.5.160-162
1998Mesomphrale asiaticum Nagatomi and Yang p. 143 figs. 99-101

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
genusMesomphrale
speciesasiaticum()

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Mesomphrale asiaticum Hong and Wang 1990
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