Insecta - Mecoptera - Austropanorpidae
Full reference: E. F. Riek. 1952. The fossil insects of the Tertiary Redbank Plains series. Part 1: an outline of the fossil assemblage with descriptions of the fossil insects of the orders Mecoptera and Neuroptera. Papers - Department of Geology, University of Queensland 4(1):1-14
Belongs to Austropanorpa according to K. J. Lambkin 2018
See also Krzemiński et al. 2018, Riek 1952, Riek 1967 and Willmann 1978
Sister taxon: Austropanorpa martynovae
Type specimen: UQ F.10634, a forewing. Its type locality is Redbank Plains, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine - small mudstone in the Redbank Plains Formation of Australia.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Australia (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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