Palatinarkema prokopi was named by Nel and Poschmann (2021). Its type specimen is NHMM PE 2020/5004-LS, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Excavation east of Niedermoschel, road to Alsenz, which is in an Asselian lacustrine - large siliciclastic in the Meisenheim Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Palatinarkema.