Gigaphlebia palmaris Martynova 1948

Insecta - Mecoptera - Orthophlebiidae

Alternative combinations: Mesopanorpa palmaris, Orthophlebia (Dolichophlebia) palmaris

Full reference: O. M. Martynova. 1948. Materialy po evolyutsii Mecoptera. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 14:1-76

Belongs to Gigaphlebia according to A. Soszyńska-Maj and K. Krzemiński 2018

See also Hong and Zhang 2007, Martynova 1948 and Willmann 1978

Sister taxa: Gigaphlebia grandis, Gigaphlebia riccardii

Type specimen: PIN 371/179, a forewing. Its type locality is Ak-Bulak-Say, Sogjuta, Issyk-Kul (PIN Collection 371), which is in a Hettangian/Sinemurian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Dzhil Formation of Kyrgyzstan.

Distribution: found only at Ak-Bulak-Say, Sogjuta, Issyk-Kul (PIN Collection 371)

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