title: Three new species of mesosciophilid gnats from the Middle-Late Jurassic of China (insecta: Diptera: Nematocera: Mesosciophilidae).
abstract: Three extinct new species from the Callovian or Oxfordian (uppermost Middle Jurassic or lowermost Upper Jurassic) Daohugou beds in Inner Mongolia, China is described as Mesosciophila abstracta sp. n., Mesosciophilodes synchrona sp. n. and Paramesosciophilodes eximia sp. n. (Family Mesosciophilidae). All the records of mesosciophilid gnats are briefly reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D000818:Animals; D002681:China; D004175:Diptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D005580:Fossils; D008297:Male; D010163:Paleontology; D013997:Time Factors; D014921:Wings, Animal / Q000033:anatomy & histology