Pterinoblattina penna Scudder 1885 (silky lacewing)

Insecta - Neuroptera - Psychopsidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1885. Notes on Mesozoic Cockroaches. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 37:105-115

Belongs to Pterinoblattina according to J. E. Jepson et al. 2012

See also Handlirsch 1906, Martynova 1949, Scudder 1885 and Scudder 1886

Sister taxa: Pterinoblattina brigidae, Pterinoblattina fasciata, Pterinoblattina kobdoensis, Pterinoblattina logunovi, Pterinoblattina maculosa, Pterinoblattina minima, Pterinoblattina peverilensis, Pterinoblattina pluma, Pterinoblattina proudlovei

Type specimen: NHM I 12324, a wing (fragment). Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Lower Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie coll.), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Durlston Bay, Lower Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie coll.)

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