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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FF1C2A4574B2B969" bold="true" box="[151,249,1024,1050]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">Mangas</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA3FFB9FE8B2A4475E4B968" author="Kovalev, V. G." box="[256,431,1025,1051]" pageId="6" pageNumber="552" pagination="126 - 154" refId="ref6668" refString="Kovalev, V. G. (1986) [Descriptions of fossil flies. Muscida (= Diptera). Infraorders Bibionomorpha et Asilomorpha.]. In: [Insects in the early Cretaceous ecosystems of the West Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnoi Sovetsko-Mongololskoi Paleontololicheskoi Ekpeditsii, 28, pp. 126 - 154, pls. 15 - 16. [in Russian]" type="journal article" year="1986">Kovalev, 1986</bibRefCitation>
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species.
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FEA22A0275FDB92F" box="[297,438,1094,1116]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">Mangas exilis</emphasis>
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: 136
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, by original designation.
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FF1C2ACD755AB9D2" bold="true" box="[151,273,1160,1185]" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Large to medium size gracile flies. Male antennae at least as long body; long legs; tibial spur formula 1:2:2. Sc complete,
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in the middle of Sc. R
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apex with pterostigma. Rs base curved, as long as section M
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; section M
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at least twice the section M
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; M fork at least
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the section M
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. Crossvein
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absent (M stem touching
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) or replaced by a short fusion. Abdominal segments 1 and 2 shorter than segment 3; segments 57 of male more sclerotised that preceding ones. Male gonostyli simple.
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FF4C2B077507B828" bold="true" box="[199,332,1346,1371]" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">Discussion.</emphasis>
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established the new subfamily
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and described
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FB132B06717FB829" box="[1176,1332,1346,1370]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">Mangas exilis</emphasis>
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from the Lower Cretaceous of West
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.
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figured the specimen with basal and posterior portions of the wing missing. Neither the origin of the posterior fork nor any portion of Sc is preserved.
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seemingly lacks a pterostigma (but see discussion below) and, unlike all other species in the family
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, R
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.
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suggested that the relatively long antennae of this specimen and the relative position of
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(
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) and
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(basalmost portion of M
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) indicate a close relationship with
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.
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re-examined the specimen and stated that “
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(
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) and the basal part of CuA (is) identifiable by analogy to its venation”.
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concluded that
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FD8F2800762EBB2F" box="[516,613,1604,1628]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">M. exilis</emphasis>
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“cannot be demonstrated to be closely related to... a bolitophilid.” and was “allied to
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FEB0282D7580BBF3" box="[315,459,1640,1664]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">Heterotricha</emphasis>
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”.
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, in a cladistics analysis of both extant and extinct fossil Sciaroidea, and in which
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was coded for 18 out of 77 characters analyzed in the study, concluded that
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“belongs to the keroplatid clade”, distinct from a clade that included
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FC7128F5709FBBB4" box="[1018,1236,1712,1736]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">Bolitophila cinerea</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FB6828F47176BBBB" box="[1251,1341,1713,1736]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">Mangas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (see below) and the extinct
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FE312891775CBB9F" box="[442,791,1748,1772]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">Archipleciomima obtusipennis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
.
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suggested that
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FEC928BC75EFBA63" box="[322,420,1784,1808]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">M. exilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
had a suite of characters including 1) a long, curved base of Rs situated distally, 2)
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vertical, 3) section M2 long and longitudinal and 4) a short section M3 (M
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stem) that were characteristic of
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. At least characters 3 and 4 from the list are apomorphies compared to other Mesozoic Sciaroidea.
</paragraph>
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A second specimen, from the Lower Cretaceous of the Transbaikal region, consists only of an isolated wing and was identified by
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA3FFB9FE0529CF7675BAD0" author="Kovalev, V. G." box="[398,574,1930,1955]" pageId="6" pageNumber="552" pagination="126 - 154" refId="ref6668" refString="Kovalev, V. G. (1986) [Descriptions of fossil flies. Muscida (= Diptera). Infraorders Bibionomorpha et Asilomorpha.]. In: [Insects in the early Cretaceous ecosystems of the West Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnoi Sovetsko-Mongololskoi Paleontololicheskoi Ekpeditsii, 28, pp. 126 - 154, pls. 15 - 16. [in Russian]" type="journal article" year="1986">Kovalev (1986)</bibRefCitation>
as
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FDEF29CE76F5BAD1" box="[612,702,1931,1954]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">Mangas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. This specimen, like
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FC4629CE7066BAD0" box="[973,1069,1931,1955]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">M. exilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, lacks R
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although it does have a prominent pterostigma and its Sc is strongly sclerotized. The
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FCF929F477C3BABA" box="[882,904,1969,1993]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">tb</emphasis>
crossvein is absent,
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touches the M stem directly, a condition also found in various
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, for example, the extant species
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA3FFB9FBFC299371DEBA9D" authority="Winnertz, 1863" authorityName="Winnertz" authorityYear="1863" box="[1143,1429,2005,2030]" class="Insecta" family="Bolitophilidae" genus="Bolitophila" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="552" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tenella">
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA3FFB9FBFC299370AABA9E" box="[1143,1249,2005,2029]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="552">B. tenella</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA3FFB9FB63299071DEBA9D" author="Winnertz, J." box="[1256,1429,2005,2030]" pageId="6" pageNumber="552" pagination="637 - 964" refId="ref7636" refString="Winnertz, J. (1863) Beitrag zu einer Monographie der Pilzmucken. Ferhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 13, 637 - 964." type="journal article" year="1863">Winnertz, 1863</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FF1C2EDC7560BDC3" box="[151,299,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">B. basicornis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FEBF2EDD7588BDC3" author="Mayer, H." box="[308,451,151,176]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="127 - 136" refId="ref6900" refString="Mayer, H. (1951) Neue Fungivoriden (Diptera Nematocera) aus der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museum Wien. II. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 58, 127 - 136." type="journal article" year="1951">Mayer, 1951</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FE592EDC761DBDC3" box="[466,598,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">B. atlantica</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FDD62ED276AFBDC3" author="Fisher, E. G." box="[605,740,151,176]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="276 - 278" refId="ref6381" refString="Fisher, E. G. (1934) Four new species of Mycetophilidae (Diptera). Canadian Entomologist, 66, 276 - 278. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 66276 - 12" type="journal article" year="1934">Fisher 1934</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FC972EDC7737BDC3" box="[796,892,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">B. dupla</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FC0F2EDD7051BDC3" author="Garrett, C. B. D." box="[900,1050,151,176]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" refId="ref6421" refString="Garrett, C. B. D. (1925) Sixty-one new Diptera. Courier Print, Cranbrook, B. C. 12 pp." type="book" year="1925">Garrett, 1925</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FBA12ED270E6BDC3" author="Shaw, F. R." box="[1066,1197,151,176]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="99 - 101" refId="ref7141" refString="Shaw, F. R. (1962) A key to the North American species of Bolitophila (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with some observations on those described by CBD Garrett. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 55 (1), 99 - 101. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 55.1.99" type="journal article" year="1962">Shaw 1962</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FB312EDD71DBBDC3" author="Hutson, A. M. &amp; Ackland, D. M. &amp; Kidd, L. N." box="[1210,1424,152,176]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="1 - 112" refId="ref6573" refString="Hutson, A. M., Ackland, D. M. &amp; Kidd, L. N. (1980) Mycetophilidae (Bolitophilinae, Ditomyiinae, Diadocidiinae, Keroplatinae, Sciophilinae and Manotinae). Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, 9 (3), pp. 1 - 112." type="journal article" year="1980">
Hutson
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FA982EDC7107BDC3" box="[1299,1356,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">et al.</emphasis>
1980
</bibRefCitation>
). With the exception of the lack of R
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, this latter specimen keys to
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.
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FBA22EF970AABDA7" author="Chandler, P." box="[1065,1249,188,213]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="101 - 144" refId="ref6091" refString="Chandler, P. (2002) Heterotricha Loew and allied genera (Diptera: Sciaroidea): offshoots of the stem group of Mycetophilidae and / or Sciaridae? Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 38, 101 - 144." type="journal article" year="2002">Chandler (2002)</bibRefCitation>
re-examined the actual specimen and also recognised this specimen as a member of
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FC282EA7700CBD88" authorityName="Winnertz" authorityYear="1863" box="[931,1095,226,251]" class="Insecta" family="Bolitophilidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Bolitophilidae</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FBDF2EA670E5BD89" box="[1108,1198,227,250]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Mangas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp., as “
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gen. sp.” was identified as a sister group to
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FDF02F4276B2BC6C" authorityName="Meigen" authorityYear="1818" box="[635,761,263,287]" class="Insecta" family="Bolitophilidae" genus="Bolitophila" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FDF02F4276B2BC6C" box="[635,761,263,287]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Bolitophila</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
by
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FCA92F437012BC6C" author="Hippa, H. &amp; Vilkamaa, P." box="[802,1113,262,287]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="121 - 144" refId="ref6518" refString="Hippa, H. &amp; Vilkamaa, P. (2005) The genus Sciarotricha gen. n. (Sciaridae) and the phylogeny of recent and fossil Sciaroidea (Diptera). Insect Systematics and Evolution, 36, 121 - 144. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631205788838492" type="journal article" year="2005">Hippa and Vilkamaa (2005)</bibRefCitation>
who retained
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FB7C2F437135BC6C" authorityName="Kovalev" authorityYear="1986" box="[1271,1406,262,287]" class="Insecta" family="Mycetophilidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Mangasinae">Mangasinae</taxonomicName>
as a subfamily of
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FEC12F6F75A6BC30" authorityName="Winnertz" authorityYear="1863" box="[330,493,298,323]" class="Insecta" family="Bolitophilidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Bolitophilidae</taxonomicName>
, defined by
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FD0B2F6F777FBC30" author="Kovalev, V. G." box="[640,820,298,323]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="126 - 154" refId="ref6668" refString="Kovalev, V. G. (1986) [Descriptions of fossil flies. Muscida (= Diptera). Infraorders Bibionomorpha et Asilomorpha.]. In: [Insects in the early Cretaceous ecosystems of the West Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnoi Sovetsko-Mongololskoi Paleontololicheskoi Ekpeditsii, 28, pp. 126 - 154, pls. 15 - 16. [in Russian]" type="journal article" year="1986">Kovalev (1986)</bibRefCitation>
by the apomorphy “absence of R
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” (R
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here). They populated
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FE872F1475D8BC19" authorityName="Kovalev" authorityYear="1986" box="[268,403,337,362]" class="Insecta" family="Mycetophilidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Mangasinae">Mangasinae</taxonomicName>
with Kovalevs single undescribed specimen which they removed from the genus
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FAA42F1771C2BC1A" authorityName="Kovalev" authorityYear="1986" box="[1327,1417,338,361]" class="Insecta" family="Bolitophilidae" genus="Mangas" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FAA42F1771C2BC1A" box="[1327,1417,338,361]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Mangas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="394EA664FFA2FFB8FF4C2F307089BF15" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,1747]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">
The reconsideration of the group here shows that conclusions of
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FC322F30703FBCFD" author="Chandler, P." box="[953,1140,373,398]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="101 - 144" refId="ref6091" refString="Chandler, P. (2002) Heterotricha Loew and allied genera (Diptera: Sciaroidea): offshoots of the stem group of Mycetophilidae and / or Sciaridae? Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 38, 101 - 144." type="journal article" year="2002">Chandler (2002)</bibRefCitation>
and
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are based on misinterpretations of fossil material, incorrect coding and literal interpretation of their cladogram. For example, a vein identified by Chandler as “
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FCB02FF8771ABCA6" box="[827,849,445,469]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">tb</emphasis>
” (2002: 136, fig. 92) is actually homologous to the section M2 of Kovalev (section of M between
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FD2D2FA476F7BC8A" box="[678,700,481,505]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">tb</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FD782FA77751BC8A" box="[755,794,482,505]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">r-m</emphasis>
). In Hippa and Vilkamaas matrix (2005: 124129, table 2), character 38 must be coded 1/1 instead of 1/0, character 45 0/? instead of 1/0, character 54 0/0 instead of 1/ 0 for
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FF512C6F757FBF32" authorityName="Kovalev" authorityYear="1986" box="[218,308,554,577]" class="Insecta" family="Bolitophilidae" genus="Mangas" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FF512C6F757FBF32" box="[218,308,554,577]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Mangas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp./
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FEEE2C6F764EBF32" box="[357,517,553,577]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Mangas exilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
correspondingly; character 42 is based on incorrect interpretation of homology since section M2 of the M stem is present in almost all Bibionomorpha in one way or the other.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="394EA664FFA2FFB8FF4C2C3770E5BEA5" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,1747]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">
As
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FF652C3475EBBFF9" author="Kovalev, V. G." box="[238,416,625,650]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="126 - 154" refId="ref6668" refString="Kovalev, V. G. (1986) [Descriptions of fossil flies. Muscida (= Diptera). Infraorders Bibionomorpha et Asilomorpha.]. In: [Insects in the early Cretaceous ecosystems of the West Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnoi Sovetsko-Mongololskoi Paleontololicheskoi Ekpeditsii, 28, pp. 126 - 154, pls. 15 - 16. [in Russian]" type="journal article" year="1986">Kovalev (1986)</bibRefCitation>
noted, the wing venation of
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is most similar to
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, with the exception of absence of R
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. This venation pattern is largely plesiomorphic (
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;
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), shared by different basal Sciaroidea, such as
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,
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and
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-group genera (
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).
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differs from
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Edwards,
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in that the base of Rs is located near the middle of the wing, distad of
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(basally, proximad of
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in
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FB332D417128BE6F" box="[1208,1379,772,796]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Arachnocampa</emphasis>
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);
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is at the level of
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or slightly proximad (more basal in
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FCCF2D6D77A4BE33" box="[836,1007,808,832]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Arachnocampa</emphasis>
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); CuA and A
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converging (parallel or diverging in
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FEA22D0A759FBE14" box="[297,468,847,871]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Arachnocampa</emphasis>
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). It differs from
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and from the
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-group in its very short M3 section (compared both to section M2 and M fork) and the presence of a pterostigma; from the
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- group in the presence of a distinct M base (section M1).
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have vein R
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curved posteriorly evenly, making cell r
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tapered, while in
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R
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is slightly sinusoid, and tip of cell r
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being obtuse.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FF4C2DA17570BE8E" bold="true" box="[199,315,996,1021]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Remarks.</emphasis>
Although the wing venation of
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FD362DA07714BE8E" box="[701,863,997,1021]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Mangas exilis</emphasis>
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is preserved very poorly, its taxonomic position within
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can be established with certainty since its shares apomorphies, such as elongated flagellomeres, short section M3, cell r
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wide and parallel-sided and obtuse at apex (
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FBC72A6971C4B936" author="Kovalev, V. G." box="[1100,1423,1068,1093]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="126 - 154" refId="ref6668" refString="Kovalev, V. G. (1986) [Descriptions of fossil flies. Muscida (= Diptera). Infraorders Bibionomorpha et Asilomorpha.]. In: [Insects in the early Cretaceous ecosystems of the West Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnoi Sovetsko-Mongololskoi Paleontololicheskoi Ekpeditsii, 28, pp. 126 - 154, pls. 15 - 16. [in Russian]" type="journal article" year="1986">Kovalev 1986: Pl. XV, fig.6</bibRefCitation>
), and shortened abdominal segments 1 and 2 visible also in better preserved species.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="394EA664FFA2FFB8FF4C2A327574BBDC" blockId="7.[151,1437,151,1747]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">
The main arguments against inclusion of
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FD1C2A3D76BAB9FC" box="[663,753,1144,1167]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Mangas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in
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are: 1) absence of pterostigma in
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FABF2A3D71DFB9FC" box="[1332,1428,1143,1167]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">M. exilis</emphasis>
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; 2) poor preservation of the
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of
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FDD22AD976F0B9C7" box="[601,699,1180,1204]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">M. exilis</emphasis>
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preventing observation of Sc, and the bases of M and CuA. The absence of a pterostigma in the specimen of
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FD1F2A857779B9A4" box="[660,818,1215,1239]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Mangas exilis</emphasis>
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may be an artifact of preservation. The specimen was preserved in rather coarse sandstones of the Gurvan-Erenii-Nuru locality, which did not allow preservation of delicate details, such as thin veins (e.g. bases of M). Interestingly, a specimen of another species from the same formation,
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FE9E2B697663B837" box="[277,552,1324,1348]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Pachyrhyphus yakovlevi</emphasis>
Kovalev (Anisopodidae)
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, described from much finer mudstones of the Boro- Nuru locality, contains a conspicuous pterostigma (
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FD582B0A7787B81B" author="Kovalev, V. G." box="[723,972,1359,1384]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="126 - 154" refId="ref6668" refString="Kovalev, V. G. (1986) [Descriptions of fossil flies. Muscida (= Diptera). Infraorders Bibionomorpha et Asilomorpha.]. In: [Insects in the early Cretaceous ecosystems of the West Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnoi Sovetsko-Mongololskoi Paleontololicheskoi Ekpeditsii, 28, pp. 126 - 154, pls. 15 - 16. [in Russian]" type="journal article" year="1986">Kovalev 1986: fig. 98</bibRefCitation>
), while specimens of
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FB342B0A7114B814" box="[1215,1375,1359,1383]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Pachyrhyphus</emphasis>
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from the Gurvan-Erenii-Nuru locality lack pterostigma (
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). The wing venation of
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<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FB772B3171D7B8FF" box="[1276,1436,1396,1420]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Mangas exilis</emphasis>
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cannot be reconstructed with certainty based on the
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(the specimens was studied by VB in
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), however, the species shares at least two synapomorphies with
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: long antennae and a very short M stem (section M
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). None of fossil
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known from the Mesozoic with a similar wing venation pattern (Antefunguvoridae,
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-group genera,
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) express these character states.
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FB1B28427167BB6D" authorityName="Kovalev" authorityYear="1986" box="[1168,1324,1542,1566]" class="Insecta" family="Bolitophilidae" genus="Mangas" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="exilis">
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FB1B28427167BB6D" box="[1168,1324,1542,1566]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Mangas exilis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, based on the
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specimen, cannot be distinguished with certainty from
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FC4E286F716EBB30" authorityName="Edwards" authorityYear="1924" box="[965,1317,1578,1603]" class="Insecta" family="Mycetophilidae" genus="Arachnocampa" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FC4E286F703BBB31" box="[965,1136,1578,1602]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Arachnocampa</emphasis>
(Keroplatidae)
</taxonomicName>
; however,
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FF1C280A74BABB15" authorityName="Kovalev" authorityYear="1986" box="[151,241,1615,1638]" class="Insecta" family="Bolitophilidae" genus="Mangas" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FF1C280A74BABB15" box="[151,241,1615,1638]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Mangas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (
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: fig. 106,
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: 136137, fig. 91) does have characters of
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FB7E280B71D2BB14" authorityName="Winnertz" authorityYear="1863" box="[1269,1433,1614,1639]" class="Insecta" family="Bolitophilidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Bolitophilidae</taxonomicName>
. Discovery of new material of
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FE6728377638BBF8" authorityName="Kovalev" authorityYear="1986" box="[492,627,1650,1675]" class="Insecta" family="Mycetophilidae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Mangasinae">Mangasinae</taxonomicName>
and descriptions of new species confirms placement of
<taxonomicName id="FEF1DDE7FFA2FFB8FB7928367107BBF9" authorityName="Kovalev" authorityYear="1986" box="[1266,1356,1651,1674]" class="Insecta" family="Bolitophilidae" genus="Mangas" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Diptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="0B857A76FFA2FFB8FB7928367107BBF9" box="[1266,1356,1651,1674]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="553">Mangas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
within
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.
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New material from Khosyurty (see below) corroborates
<bibRefCitation id="5D60DB95FFA2FFB8FCB728FF77B4BBA0" author="Kovalev, V. G." box="[828,1023,1722,1747]" pageId="7" pageNumber="553" pagination="126 - 154" refId="ref6668" refString="Kovalev, V. G. (1986) [Descriptions of fossil flies. Muscida (= Diptera). Infraorders Bibionomorpha et Asilomorpha.]. In: [Insects in the early Cretaceous ecosystems of the West Mongolia]. Trudy Sovmestnoi Sovetsko-Mongololskoi Paleontololicheskoi Ekpeditsii, 28, pp. 126 - 154, pls. 15 - 16. [in Russian]" type="journal article" year="1986">Kovalevs (1986)</bibRefCitation>
original diagnosis of the genus.
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