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Original Articles

Two new species of Mesosciophilidae (Insecta: Diptera: Nematocera) from the Yanliao biota of Inner Mongolia, China

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Pages 509-514 | Received 27 Dec 2011, Accepted 12 Apr 2012, Published online: 03 Aug 2012
 

Abstract

Wang, Q., Zhao, Y.Y. & Ren, D., December 2012. Two new species of Mesosciophilidae (Insecta: Diptera: Nematocera) from the Yanliao biota of Inner Mongolia, China. Alcheringa 36, 509–514. ISSN 0311-5518.

Two new species assigned to Mesosciophila Rohdendorf and Paramesosciophilodes Zhang in the Mesosciophilidae are described and illustrated: Mesosciophila sigmoidea sp. nov. and Paramesosciophilodes aequus sp. nov. They are established based on fossil specimens with bodies and complete wings. Both were collected from the Middle Jurassic, Jiulongshan Formation at Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2012CB821900), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40872022), and the Scientific Research Key Program and PHR (No. 20090509, 201107120) Project of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education. The authors thank Dr Shih ChungKun from the College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University of China, for his improvements to the manuscript.

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