Mesotrichoca

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
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Cecidomyiidae
Subfamily:	Catotrichinae
Genus:	†Mesotrichoca Jaschhof & Jaschhof, 2008
Type species
Mesotrichoca mesozoica (Kovalev, 1990)