Agetopanorpa sinica Lian et al. 2022 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Permochoristidae

Full reference: X. N. Lian, C. Y. Cai, and D. Y. Huang. 2022. New species of permochoristids (Insecta, Mecoptera) from the late Middle Triassic Tongchuan entomofauna in Shaanxi Province, northwestern China. Historical Biology 35:2005-2010

Belongs to Agetopanorpa according to X. N. Lian et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Agetopanorpa adscita, Agetopanorpa breviuscula, Agetopanorpa consueta, Agetopanorpa danili, Agetopanorpa deceptoria, Agetopanorpa dubia, Agetopanorpa elongata, Agetopanorpa fasciata, Agetopanorpa intermedia, Agetopanorpa kungurica, Agetopanorpa letopalae, Agetopanorpa maculata, Agetopanorpa mica, Agetopanorpa obsoleta, Agetopanorpa ornata, Agetopanorpa permiana, Agetopanorpa punctata, Agetopanorpa sarbalensis, Agetopanorpa similis, Agetopanorpa tillyardi, Agetopanorpa tillyardiana, Agetopanorpa triassica

Type specimen: NIGP177983, a forewing. Its type locality is Qishuihe outcrop, Hejiafang, Jinsuoguan Town, Tongchuan City, which is in a Longobardian lacustrine mudstone in the Yanchang Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Qishuihe outcrop, Hejiafang, Jinsuoguan Town, Tongchuan City

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