Insecta - Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae
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 Prochoristella according to V. G. Novokshonov 1997
See also Riek 1953 and Willmann 1978
Sister taxa: Prochoristella anagaura, Prochoristella balgowanensis, Prochoristella belli, Prochoristella bulwerensis, Prochoristella channingi, Prochoristella concinna, Prochoristella hartmani, Prochoristella ignara, Prochoristella longa, Prochoristella megaloprepia, Prochoristella pilosa, Prochoristella pusilla, Prochoristella shuangyangensis, Prochoristella vicina
Type specimen: AM F40168, 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.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Warner's Bay, Belmont (AMF coll)
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