Archocyrtus

Archocyrtus
Temporal range: Callovian
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Diptera
Family:Acroceridae
Subfamily:Acrocerinae
Genus:†Archocyrtus
Ussatchev, 1968
Type species
†Archocyrtus gibbosus
Ussatchev, 1968
Species
  • †A. gibbosus
  • †A. kovalevi
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:

  • †A. gibbosus Ussatchev, 1968
  • †A. kovalevi (Nartshuk, 1996)[2][1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 Nartshuk, E. P. (1995). "A new fossil acrocerid fly from the Jurassic beds of Kazakhstan (Diptera: Acroceridae)". Zoosystematica Rossica. 4 (2): 313–315.
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