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Genus of flies

Mesotrichoca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily: Catotrichinae
Genus: †Mesotrichoca
Jaschhof & Jaschhof, 2008
Type species
Mesotrichoca mesozoica
(Kovalev, 1990)

Mesotrichoca is a genus of midges in the family Cecidomyiidae. The one described species in the genus - Mesotrichoca mesozoica - is known only from Siberia from a sediment fossil associated with the Late Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous epochs. This species was placed in Catotricha when it was first described by Russian entomologist Vladimir Grigoryevich Kovalev. This genus was established by Mathias Jaschhof and Catrin Jaschhof in 2008.

References

  1. ^ R.J. Gagne; M. Jaschof (2021). A Catalog of the Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) of the World (5th ed.). ISBN 978-0-9863941-3-3. Wikidata Q109561625.
  2. ^ Mathias Jaschhof; Catrin Jaschhof (2008). "Catotrichinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Tasmania, with the description of Trichotoca edentula gen. et sp. n.". Zootaxa. 1966: 53–61. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.1966.1.2. ISSN 1175-5334. Wikidata Q113885620.
Taxon identifiers
Mesotrichoca


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