Insecta - Mecoptera - Bittacidae

Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1933. The Panorpoid complex in the British Rhaetic and Lias. Fossil Insects, British Museum Natural History 3:1-79

Belongs to Protobittacus according to R. Willmann 1978

See also Tillyard 1933

Sister taxa: Protobittacus arculatus, Protobittacus desacuminatus, Protobittacus handlirschi, Protobittacus maculatus, Protobittacus moestus

Type specimen: BMNH I 10525, an exoskeleton (head, prothorax, mesothorax, parts of legs & one forewing). Its type locality is Strensham, Worcestershire, which is in a Rhaetian marine horizon in the Lilstock Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Strensham, Worcestershire

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