Austropanorpa
| Austropanorpa Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mecoptera |
| Family: | †Austropanorpidae Willmann, 1977 |
| Genus: | †Austropanorpa Riek, 1952 |
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| †Austropanorpa australis Riek, 1952
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Austropanorpa is an extinct genus of
monotypic family by Rainer Willman in 1977.[2] In 2018 the species "Orthophlebia" martynovae from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) aged Cheremkhovo Formation near Lake Baikal in Siberia, described by Irina Sukacheva in 1985,[3] was recognised as belonging to the genus. The genus is distinguished from other mecopterans by having nine branched radial sectors and four veins in the medial sector of both wings, as opposed to living panorpoids which are typically 5 and rarely 6 branched.[4]
References
- ^ Riek, E. F. 1952. The fossil insects of the Tertiary Redbank Plainsseries. Part I. An outline of the fossil assemblage with descriptionsof the fossil insects of Mecoptera and Neuroptera.University of Queensland, Department of Geology, Papers, (N.S.) 4,3–14
- ^ Willmann, R. 1977. Zur systematischen Stellung von Austropanorpa(Insecta, Mecoptera) aus dem Altterti?r Australiens.Pala ̈ontolo-gische Zeitschrift 51, 12–18.
- ^ Sukatsheva, I. D. 1985. Jurassic scorpionflies of South Siberia and West Mongolia.In Rasnitsyn, A. P. (ed.) [Jurassic insects ofSiberia and Mongolia.] Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta ANSSSR211, 96–114. Moscow: Nauka. [In Russian.]
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