Panorpodes weitschati Soszyńska-Maj and Krzemiński 2013 (short-faced scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Panorpodidae

Full reference: A. Soszyńska-Maj and W. Krzemiński. 2013. Family Panorpodidae (Insecta, Mecoptera) from Baltic amber (upper Eocene): new species, redescription and palaeogeographic remarks of relict scorpionflies. Zootaxa 3636:489-499

Belongs to Panorpodes according to A. Soszyńska-Maj and W. Krzemiński 2013

Sister taxa: Panorpodes brevicauda, Panorpodes gedanensis, Panorpodes hageni

Type specimen: GPIM UH 192, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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