Petrochorista tychtensis Martynova 1961 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Permochoristidae

Full reference: O. M. Martynova. 1961. Neuropteroidea, Mecopteroidea, Trichoptera in Paleozoiskie nasekomye kuznetskogo basseina. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 85:469-593

Belongs to Petrochorista according to R. Willmann 1978

See also Martynova 1951 and Martynova 1961

Sister taxa: Petrochorista distincta, Petrochorista elegantula, Petrochorista erunakovensis, Petrochorista ivae, Petrochorista lepida, Petrochorista minuta, Petrochorista parvula, Petrochorista recta, Petrochorista sojanensis, Petrochorista sororcula, Petrochorista unica

Type specimen: PIN 506/71, a hindwing. Its type locality is Tykhta River, ditch 34, Kutsnetsk Basin (PIN collection 506), which is in a Wuchiapingian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Gramoteinskaya Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Tykhta River, ditch 34, Kutsnetsk Basin (PIN collection 506)

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