Mesopanorpodes wianamattensis Tillyard 1918 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae

Alternative combination: Mesopanorpa wianamattensis

Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1918. Permian and Triassic insects from New South Wales, in the collection of Mr. John Mitchell. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42:720-756

Belongs to Mesopanorpodes according to X. D. Lin et al. 2016

See also Novokshonov 1997, Riek 1953, Tillyard 1918 and Willmann 1978

Sister taxa: Mesopanorpodes latus, Mesopanorpodes shaanxiensis

Type specimen: AM F39326, a wing. Its type locality is Glenlee railway cutting, which is in a Pelsonian/Illyrian pond shale in the Ashfield Shale Formation of Australia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Glenlee railway cutting

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