Mesochorista anglicana Tillyard 1933 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Permochoristidae

Alternative combination: Liassochorista anglicana

Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1933. The Panorpoid complex in the British Rhaetic and Lias. Fossil Insects, British Museum Natural History 3:1-79

Belongs to Mesochorista according to J. Ansorge 1995

See also Tillyard 1933 and Willmann 1978

Sister taxa: Mesochorista asiatica, Mesochorista australica, Mesochorista blanda, Mesochorista bucera, Mesochorista fedotovi, Mesochorista generalis, Mesochorista ignota, Mesochorista ingloria, Mesochorista injuriosa, Mesochorista intercalaris, Mesochorista inverrucosa, Mesochorista javorskyi, Mesochorista kargalensis, Mesochorista minuta, Mesochorista nana, Mesochorista obsoleta, Mesochorista phipa, Mesochorista pinnigera, Mesochorista proavita, Mesochorista prospera, Mesochorista pudica, Mesochorista rohdendorfi, Mesochorista sinuata, Mesochorista stigmophylla, Mesochorista strictoptera, Mesochorista tomiensis, Mesochorista tongchuanensis, Mesochorista vasjuchitshevi, Mesochorista veteratoria, Mesochorista wolbromae, Permochorista nana, Liassochorista hebeiensis, Liassochorista molesta, Liassochorista utilis, Liassochorista kenderlykensis

Type specimen: BMNH I 10602, a forewing. Its type locality is Brown's Wood, Warwickshire, which is in a Rhaetian marine horizon in the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Brown's Wood, Warwickshire

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