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Archocyrtus

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Archocyrtus
Temporal range: Callovian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Acroceridae
Subfamily: Archocyrtinae
Genus: Archocyrtus
Ussatchev, 1968
Type species
Archocyrtus gibbosus
Ussatchev, 1968
Species
Synonyms[1]

Juracyrtus Nartshuk, 1996[2]

Archocyrtus is an extinct genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. The genus is known from compression fossils from the Middle Jurassic of Kazakhstan.[1]

Species

Two species belong to the genus Archocyrtus:

References

  1. ^ a b c Gillung, Jessica P.; Winterton, Shaun L. (2017). "A review of fossil spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic Amber". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (4): 325–350. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1289566.
  2. ^ a b Nartshuk, E. P. (1995). "A new fossil acrocerid fly from the Jurassic beds of Kazakhstan (Diptera: Acroceridae)". Zoosystematica Rossica. 4 (2): 313–315.