Insecta - Neuroptera - Mantispidae

Full reference: S. Wedmann and V. N. Makarkin. 2007. A new genus of Mantispidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Eocene of Germany, with a review of the fossil record and palaeobiogeography of the family. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149:701-716

Belongs to Symphrasites according to J. E. Jepson 2015

See also Engel and Grimaldi 2007 and Wedmann and Makarkin 2007

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: FIS MeI 8384, a forewing (forewing base folded on itself). Its type locality is Grube Messel grid square E8/9, 1.5-2.5 m above alpha marker, which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Grube Messel grid square E8/9, 0.575-0.77 m above alpha marker

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