Insecta - Mecoptera - Bittacidae

Alternative combination: Panorpa veterna

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VI. Oligocene insects from Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 7:453-480

Belongs to Bittacus according to E. A. Jarzembowski 1980

See also Cockerell 1921 and Willmann 1978

Sister taxa: Bittacus biamensis, Bittacus egestionis, Bittacus lepiduscretaceus, Bittacus succinus

Type specimen: NHML In.24330, a wing (apical part of right wing). Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.