Insecta - Diptera - Protendipedidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 297787

Full reference: J. F. Zhang. 1986. Some fossil insects from the Jurassic of northern Hebei, China. The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Shandong 74-84

Belongs to Protendipes according to J. F. Zhang 1986

Sister taxon: Protendipes dasypterus

Type specimen: Shandong Museum Z80056, an exoskeleton. 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.

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Average measurements (in mm): body length 6.00, wing length 4.40