TOP QUALITY blood-sucking dipteran - Fossil plate matrix

TOP QUALITY Preserved Jurassic Phlebotominae Sandfly, blood-sucking dipteran from Jurassic. - original fossil - no add-ons, not glued. - With many details. - very visible - wings - proboscis - head - segmented body - strong anklebone - Visible legs Sandfly (or sand fly) is a colloquial name for any species or genus of flying, biting, blood-sucking dipteran (fly) encountered in sandy areas. This specimen probably was living sucking blood from some dinosaur living in the Daohu area millions of years ago. Size: insect fossil is 4 x 5 mm long from legs to bottom of the body; Matrix: 25 mm by 24 mm Fossil Site: Juilongshan Formation, Daohu Valley, Ningcheng County, Neimenggu (Inner Mongolia)

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