Insecta - Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae
Alternative combination: Mesopsyche tortiva
Full reference: V. G. Novokshonov and I. D. Sukacheva. 2001. Fossil Scorpionflies of the "Suborder" Paratrichoptera (Insecta: Mecoptera). Paleontological Journal 35:173-182
Belongs to Turbidapsyche according to X. Lian and D. Huang 2024
See also Lin et al. 2016 and Novokshonov and Sukacheva 2001
Sister taxa: Turbidapsyche dobrokhotovae, Turbidapsyche gentica, Turbidapsyche hongi, Turbidapsyche incompleta, Turbidapsyche jinsuoguanensis, Turbidapsyche justa, Turbidapsyche liaoi, Turbidapsyche ordinata, Turbidapsyche orientalis, Turbidapsyche shcherbakovi, Turbidapsyche sparsanota, Turbidapsyche tongchuanensis
Type specimen: PIN 2785/4052, a wing. Its type locality is Madygen, PIN collection 2785, Dzhailoucho area, which is in a Ladinian lacustrine - small siliciclastic in the Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Kyrgyzstan (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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