Pseudopolycentropus perlaeformis Geinitz 1884

Insecta - Mecoptera - Pseudopolycentropodidae

Alternative combination: Phryganidium perlaeforme

Full reference: F. E. Geinitz. 1884. Ueber die Fauna des Dobbertiner Lias. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 36:566-583

Belongs to Pseudopolycentropus according to R. Willmann 1978

See also Geinitz 1884, Geinitz 1888 and Handlirsch 1906

Sister taxa: Pseudopolycentropus daohugouensis, Pseudopolycentropus janeannae, Pseudopolycentropus latipennis, Pseudopolycentropus madygenicus, Pseudopolycentropus novokshonovi, Pseudopolycentropus obtusus, Pseudopolycentropus triangularis, Pseudopolycentropus triasicus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany

Distribution: found only at Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection)

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