Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Diptera from China....

Posted by picotverd on 12-04-2016 13:26
#1

Any idea?

Posted by John Carr on 12-04-2016 13:37
#2

The wing looks like Pachyneuridae, or more specifically like the American Cramptonomyia spenceri which the Europeans may have evicted from the family. I would have to review Grimaldi's book on insect evolution to see what else may have looked similar. What age is the fossil?

Edit: Probably too few veins for that group. Some other Bibionomorpha.

Edited by John Carr on 12-04-2016 13:50

Posted by picotverd on 12-04-2016 17:41
#3

John, thanks for the info. The sellers says it is jurassic...

Edited by picotverd on 12-04-2016 17:41