Turbidapsyche orientalis Lian and Huang 2024 (scorpionfly)

Insecta - Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae

Full reference: X. Lian and D. Huang. 2024. Taxonomic names, in A new genus of Mesopsychidae from the late Middle Triassic Tongchuan entomofauna and its taxonomic and palaeogeographic implications. Mesozoic 1:144-158

Belongs to Turbidapsyche according to X. Lian and D. Huang 2024

Sister taxa: Turbidapsyche dobrokhotovae, Turbidapsyche gentica, Turbidapsyche hongi, Turbidapsyche incompleta, Turbidapsyche jinsuoguanensis, Turbidapsyche justa, Turbidapsyche liaoi, Turbidapsyche ordinata, Turbidapsyche shcherbakovi, Turbidapsyche sparsanota, Turbidapsyche tongchuanensis, Turbidapsyche tortiva

Type specimen: NIGP204960, 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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