Agetopanorpa maculata Carpenter 1930 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Permochoristidae

Full reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1930. The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas: Part 1. Introduction and the Order Mecoptera. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 70(2):69-101

Belongs to Agetopanorpa according to V. G. Novokshonov 1997

See also Carpenter 1930 and Willmann 1978

Sister taxa: Agetopanorpa adscita, Agetopanorpa breviuscula, Agetopanorpa consueta, Agetopanorpa danili, Agetopanorpa deceptoria, Agetopanorpa dubia, Agetopanorpa elongata, Agetopanorpa fasciata, Agetopanorpa intermedia, Agetopanorpa kungurica, Agetopanorpa letopalae, Agetopanorpa mica, Agetopanorpa obsoleta, Agetopanorpa ornata, Agetopanorpa permiana, Agetopanorpa punctata, Agetopanorpa sarbalensis, Agetopanorpa similis, Agetopanorpa sinica, Agetopanorpa tillyardi, Agetopanorpa tillyardiana, Agetopanorpa triassica

Type specimen: MCZ 3037ab, a wing. Its type locality is Elmo, MCZ 1927 collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Elmo, MCZ 1927 collection

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