Petromantis dubia Martynov 1932 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Permochoristidae

Alternative combination: Petrochorista dubia

Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1932. Permian fossil Insects from the Arkhangelsk district. Part I. The order Mecoptera. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 2:23-62

Belongs to Petromantis according to V. G. Novokshonov 1997

See also Martynov 1932, Martynova 1948 and Willmann 1978

Sister taxa: Petromantis dubiosa, Petromantis elegans, Petromantis evansi, Petromantis grandiloqua, Petromantis grandis, Petromantis kaltanica, Petromantis karpenkoae, Petromantis latimargo, Petromantis maculipennis, Petromantis martynovi, Petromantis mirabilis, Petromantis oreshnikovae, Petromantis prona, Petromantis rieki, Petromantis robusta, Petromantis rossica, Petromantis sarbalensis, Petromantis sibirica, Petromantis stigma, Petromantis sylvaensis, Petromantis udmurtica

Type specimen: PIN 2334/66, a wing (fore & hindwing). Its type locality is Soyana (PIN collection 2334), which is in a Roadian lagoonal sandstone in the Iva-Gora Beds Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Permian of the Russian Federation (5 collections)

Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence

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