Insecta - Neuroptera - Chrysopidae

Full reference: J. E. Jepson, V. N. Makarkin, and R. A. Coram. 2012. Lacewings (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England. Cretaceous Research 34:31-47

Belongs to Mesypochrysa according to A. V. Khramov et al. 2015

See also Jepson et al. 2012

Sister taxa: Mesypochrysa angustialata, Mesypochrysa binervis, Mesypochrysa cannabina, Mesypochrysa chrysopa, Mesypochrysa chrysopoides, Mesypochrysa coadnata, Mesypochrysa curvimedia, Mesypochrysa falcata, Mesypochrysa intermedia, Mesypochrysa latipennis, Mesypochrysa magna, Mesypochrysa minima, Mesypochrysa miniscula, Mesypochrysa naranica, Mesypochrysa nielseni, Mesypochrysa polyclada, Mesypochrysa polyneura, Mesypochrysa pusilla, Mesypochrysa reducta, Mesypochrysa sinica

Type specimen: MANCH LL.16086.a-b, a wing. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Bed DB175, Swanage (Manchester Mus), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Durlston Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Durlston Bay, Bed DB175, Swanage (Manchester Mus)

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