Parachorista opposita Martynov 1932 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Parachoristidae

Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1932. Permian fossil Insects from the Arkhangelsk district. Part I. The order Mecoptera. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 2:23-62

Belongs to Parachorista according to R. Willmann 1978

See also Martynov 1932

Sister taxa: Parachorista arguta, Parachorista asiatica, Parachorista comica, Parachorista elegantula, Parachorista hongi, Parachorista immota, Parachorista libaii, Parachorista multivena, Parachorista orienta, Parachorista pincombeae, Parachorista pulchra, Parachorista religiosa, Parachorista ruga, Parachorista sana, Parachorista splendida, Parachorista triassica

Type specimen: PIN 2334/171, a hindwing. Its type locality is Soyana (PIN collection 2334), which is in a Roadian lagoonal sandstone in the Iva-Gora Beds Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Soyana (PIN collection 2334)

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