Metaraphidia confusa Whalley 1985

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Metaraphidiidae

Alternative combination: Mesoraphidia confusa

Full reference: P. E. S. Whalley. 1985. The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 39(3):107-189

Belongs to Metaraphidia according to G. Bechly and K. Wolf-Schwenninger 2011

See also Engel 2002, Whalley 1985 and Whalley 1988

Sister taxon: Metaraphidia vahldieki

Type specimen: GSM 117552, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Charmouth (GSM), which is in a Sinemurian marine siliciclastic in the Charmouth Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom.

Distribution: found only at Charmouth (GSM)

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