Mesopsychidae

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Mesopsychidae
Temporal range: Late Permian–Aptian
Lichnomesopsyche daohugouensis.jpg
Lichnomesopsyche daohugouensis
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mecoptera
Superfamily: †
Family: †Mesopsychidae
Tillyard, 1917
Genera

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Mesopsychidae is an extinct family of scorpionflies known from the Late Permian to Mid Cretaceous. It is part of Mesopsychoidea, a group of scorpionflies with siphonate proboscis. They are suggested to have been nectarivores, feeding off the liquid pollination drops and acting as pollinators for now extinct insect pollinated gymnosperms such as Bennettitales.[1]

Systematics[]

  • Riek 1974 Molteno Formation, South Africa, Carnian
  • Hong 2007 , China, Ladinian
  • Novokshonov and Sukacheva 2001 , Mongolia, Barremian, Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • Shih et al. 2013 Daohugou, China, Callovian
  • Martynov 1937 , Kyrgyzstan, Toarcian
  • Lichnomesopsyche Ren et al. 2009 Daohugou, China, Callovian
  • Ren et al. 2009 , Russia, Changhsingian, Ashfield Shale, Australia, Anisian, Tongchuan Formation, China, Ladinian
  • Tillyard 1917 (Possibly paraphyletic[1]) , , Russia, Changhsingian, Blackstone Formation, Australia, Norian, Tongchuan Formation, China, Ladinian, Madygen Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Carnian, , South Korea, Norian, , Ukraine, Norian
  • Riek 1976 , Australia, Anisian, Molteno Formation, South Africa, Carnian
  • Bashkuev 2011 , Australia, Changhsingian, , Russia, Wuchiapingian
  • Martynov 1937 Sulyukta Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Toarcian
  • Martynov 1937 Jiulongshan Formation, China, Callovian Sulyukta Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Toarcian
  • Sukatsheva 1985 Itat Formation, Russia, Bajocian-Bathonian
  • Wieland 1925 , Argentina, Carnian
  • Martynov 1937 Sulyukta Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Toarcian
  • Sukacheva 1990 , Tithonian
  • Vitimopsyche Novokshonov and Sukacheva 2001 Daohugou, China, Callovian, Yixian Formation, China, Aptian Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • Xinjiangia Hong 1983 , Xinjiang, China, Bajocian

References[]

  1. ^ a b Lin X, Shih MJ, Labandeira CC, Ren D (January 2016). "New data from the Middle Jurassic of China shed light on the phylogeny and origin of the proboscis in the Mesopsychidae (Insecta: Mecoptera)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16 (1): 1. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0575-y. PMC 4700641. PMID 26727998.
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