Agetopanorpa elongata Riek 1953

Insecta - Mecoptera - Permochoristidae

Alternative combination: Neoageta elongata

Full reference: E. F. Riek. 1953. Fossil mecopteroid insects from the Upper Permian of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2):55-87

Belongs to Agetopanorpa according to V. G. Novokshonov 1997

See also Riek 1953 and Willmann 1978

Sister taxa: Agetopanorpa adscita, Agetopanorpa breviuscula, Agetopanorpa consueta, Agetopanorpa danili, Agetopanorpa deceptoria, Agetopanorpa dubia, Agetopanorpa fasciata, Agetopanorpa intermedia, Agetopanorpa kungurica, Agetopanorpa letopalae, Agetopanorpa maculata, Agetopanorpa mica, Agetopanorpa obsoleta, Agetopanorpa ornata, Agetopanorpa permiana, Agetopanorpa punctata, Agetopanorpa sarbalensis, Agetopanorpa similis, Agetopanorpa sinica, Agetopanorpa tillyardi, Agetopanorpa tillyardiana, Agetopanorpa triassica

Type specimen: AM F43969, a forewing. Its type locality is Warner's Bay, Belmont (AMF coll), which is in a Changhsingian pond chert in the Croudace Bay Formation of Australia.

Distribution: found only at Warner's Bay, Belmont (AMF coll)

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