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Formosibittacus macularis Li, Ren & Shih 2008
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Taxonomy
Hanging-fly
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille 1829
Class: Insecta Linnaeus 1758
Order: Mecoptera Packard 1886
Family: Bittacidae Handlirsch 1906
Genus: Formosibittacus
Species: Formosibittacus macularis
Author Citation Li, Ren & Shih 2008
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Middle
International Age: Callovian to Oxfordian
Stratigraphy
Jiulongshan Formation
Daohugou Bed
Provenance
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Dimensions
Length: 22 mm
Location
Daohugou Village
Ningcheng County
Inner Mongolia (Province)
China
Comments
Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.
Etymology: Derived from the Latin word formos- (beautiful) and Bittacus (a recent genus of Bittacidae). The species is named macularis after the presence of many maculae on wing.
Diagnosis for the species †Formosibittacus macularis from Li et al. 2008, p. 42: "Sc very long, terminating at about three-fifth of the length of wing; sc-r at about two times its length before end of Sc; dark zones along cross-veins and darkened apex in wing membrane."
Line drawing of body with wings, left forewing and left hindwing from Li et al., p. 41:
References:
Y. L. Li, D. Ren, and C. K. Shih. 2008. Two Middle Jurassic hanging-flies (Insecta: Mecoptera: Bittacidae) from northeast China. Zootaxa 1929: 38-46.
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