Ptychopteropsis Martynov 1937 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae

Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1937. Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya, Part I, Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7:1-178

Parent taxon: Mesopsychidae according to X. D. Lin et al. 2016

See also Carpenter 1992, Martynov 1937 and Willmann 1978

Sister taxa: Baissopsyche, Epicharmesopsyche, Ferghanopsyche, Lichnomesopsyche, Mesopanorpodes, Mesopsyche, Mesoses, Permopsyche, Sogdopsyche, Tarantogus, Tipulidites, Turanopsyche, Undisca, Vitimopsyche, Xinjiangia, Afristella, Austrochoristella, Forcinerva, Longifurcula, Ladinochorista, Prochoristella, Allochorista, Mesotanyderus, Triassochoristites

Subtaxa: Ptychopteropsis mirabilis

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Shurab II, Ditch 63 (TSNIGRI collection 976) (Jurassic of Kyrgyzstan)

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