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]
| Mesotrichoca | |
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Scientific classification 
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| 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)
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References
edit- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c 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.
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