''Strashila'' is an extinct genus of
nematoceran flies in the family
Strashilidae
Strashilidae is an extinct family of Jurassic flies from Siberia and China. They were originally believed to represent a distinct order called Nakridletia, but subsequent research determined that they were nematoceran flies related to the extant ...
. There are at least two described species in ''Strashila''.
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Species
These two species belong to the genus ''Strashila'':
* † ''Strashila daohugouensis'' Huang, Nel, Cai, Lin & Engel, 2013 Daohugou
The Haifanggou Formation (), also known as the Jiulongshan Formation (), is a fossil-bearing rock deposit located near Daohugou () village of Ningcheng County, in Inner Mongolia, northeastern China.
The formation consists of coarse conglomerates ...
, China, Callovian
* † ''Strashila incredibilis'' Rasnitsyn, 1992Alexandr Rasnitsyn
Alexandr Pavlovich Rasnitsyn (Russian: Александр Павлович Расницын) is a Russian entomologist, expert in palaeoentomology, and Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation (2001).
His scientific interests are centered on ...
(1992): ''Strashila Incredibilis, a New Enigmatic Mecopteroid Insect With Possible Siphonapteran Affinities From the Upper Jurassic of Siberia.'' ''Psyche: A Journal of Entomology.'' Volume 99, Article ID 020491, doi:10.1155/1992/20491.
References
Mecoptera
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