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 grandiloqua, Petromantis grandis, Petromantis kaltanica, Petromantis karpenkoae, Petromantis latimargo, Petromantis maculipennis, Petromantis martynovi, Petromantis mirabilis, Petromantis oreshnikovae, Petromantis prona, Petromantis rieki, Petromantis robusta, Petromantis rossica, Petromantis sarbalensis, Petromantis sibirica, Petromantis stigma, Petromantis sylvaensis, Petromantis udmurtica
Type specimen: UFRGS I5258, a forewing. Its type locality is Road Cut on Road BR 290 near Minas do Leao, which is in a Kungurian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Irati Formation of Brazil.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Road Cut on Road BR 290 near Minas do Leao
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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