Mesotrichoca
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| Mesotrichoca | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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]
