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Issue: Vol. 3963 No. 2: 26 May 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-05-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3963.2.5
Page range: 240–249
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 1

New species and revisions of Pediciidae (Diptera) from the Middle Jurassic of northeastern China and Russia

Key Lab of Insect Evolution and Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
Key Lab of Insect Evolution and Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
Institute of Biology, Pedagogical University of Kraków, podbrzezie 3, 31-054 Kraków, Poland
Key Lab of Insect Evolution and Environmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
Daohugou Jiulongshan Formation new species Praearchitipula Tipuloidea Diptera Mongolia

Abstract

Two new species of Praearchitipula Kalugina, 1985, P. apprima sp. nov. and P. mirabilis sp. nov., are described and illustrated from the late Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Daohugou in eastern Inner Mongolia, China. In addition, we propose to transfer Architipula abnormis Hao & Ren, 2009 (which is from the same locality of Daohugou) from Architipula of Limoniidae to Praearchitipula of Pediciidae: Praearchitipula abnormis (Hao & Ren, 2009) comb. nov. In addition, we propose to transfer Praearchitipula spasskia Kalugina, 1985 to the genus Mesotipula (Limoniidae, Architipulinae). We also suggest treating Praearchitipula lata Kalugina, 1985 as a junior synonym of Praearchitipula notabilis Kalugina, 1985. An emended generic diagnosis of Praearchitipula is provided.