Parachorista opposita Martynov 1932 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Parachoristidae

Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1932. Permian fossil Insects from the Arkhangelsk district. Part I. The order Mecoptera. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 2:23-62

Belongs to Parachorista according to R. Willmann 1978

See also Martynov 1932

Sister taxa: Parachorista arguta, Parachorista asiatica, Parachorista comica, Parachorista immota, Parachorista multivena, Parachorista pincombeae, Parachorista religiosa, Parachorista sana, Parachorista splendida

Type specimen: PIN 2334/171, a hindwing. Its type locality is Soyana (PIN collection 2334), which is in a Roadian lagoonal sandstone in the Iva-Gora Beds Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Soyana (PIN collection 2334)

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