Insecta - Mecoptera - Permochoristidae
Full reference: I. D. Pinto. 1972. Permian Insects from the Parana Basin, South Brazil I. Mecoptera. Revista Brasileira de Geociencias 2(2):105-116
Belongs to Petromantis according to V. G. Novokshonov 1997
See also Pinto 1972 and Willmann 1978
Sister taxa: Petromantis dubia, Petromantis dubiosa, Petromantis elegans, Petromantis evansi, Petromantis grandiloqua, Petromantis grandis, Petromantis kaltanica, Petromantis karpenkoae, Petromantis latimargo, Petromantis maculipennis, Petromantis martynovi, Petromantis mirabilis, Petromantis oreshnikovae, Petromantis prona, Petromantis robusta, Petromantis rossica, Petromantis sarbalensis, Petromantis sibirica, Petromantis stigma, Petromantis sylvaensis, Petromantis udmurtica
Type specimen: UFRGS I5256, a forewing. Its type locality is Passo São Borja, which is in a Kungurian lacustrine - large shale in the Irati Formation of Brazil.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Passo São Borja
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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