Biology:Mesotrichoca

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Short description: Genus of flies

Mesotrichoca
Scientific classification e
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.[1][2] This species was placed in Catotricha when it was first described by Russian entomologist Vladimir Grigoryevich Kovalev.[2] This genus was established by Mathias Jaschhof and Catrin Jaschhof in 2008.[1][2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q17265385 entry