†Ptychopteropsis mirabilis Martynov 1937 (scorpionfly)
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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
Belongs to Ptychopteropsis according to X. D. Lin et al. 2016
See also Martynov 1937 and Willmann 1978
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: PIN 976/10, a forewing (anal region & 3 branches of M not preserved). Its type locality is Shurab II, Ditch 63 (TSNIGRI collection 976), which is in a Toarcian terrestrial horizon in the Sulyukta Formation of Kyrgyzstan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Shurab II, Ditch 63 (TSNIGRI collection 976)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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