Insecta - Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae
Alternative combinations: Itaphlebia tongchuanensis, Mesopsyche tongchuanensis
Full reference: Y. C. Hong. 2007. Midtriassic new genera and species of Mesopanorpodidae (Insecta, Mecoptera) from Shaanxi, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 32(2):261-267
Belongs to Turbidapsyche according to X. Lian and D. Huang 2024
See also Bashkuev 2011, Hong 2007 and Lin et al. 2016
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 tortiva
Type specimen: 82THr2/T144, a forewing (damaged posterior). Its type locality is Tongchuan, which is in a Longobardian lacustrine mudstone in the Yanchang Formation of China.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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