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Worcestobiidae – a new Triassic family of Mecoptera, based on species removed from the family Orthophlebiidae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2017

Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj ,
Wiesław Krzemiński ,
Katarzyna Kopeć  and
Robert A. Coram
Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj*
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Łódź, 90-237 Łódź, Poland
Wiesław Krzemiński
Affiliation:
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-016 Kraków, Poland
Katarzyna Kopeć
Affiliation:
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-016 Kraków, Poland
Robert A. Coram
Affiliation:
6 Battlemead, Swanage, Dorset BH19 1PH, UK
*
*Corresponding author
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Abstract

A new family, Worcestobiidae fam. nov., is established for two Triassic fossil species of Mecoptera removed from the family Orthophlebiidae: Orthophlebia gigantea Tillyard, 1933 and O. haradai Ueda, 1991. A new genus, Worcestobia gen. nov., is erected and both species are transferred to this genus. The new taxa were established as a result of ongoing taxonomic work on Orthophlebiidae, one of the most problematic families within fossil Mecoptera, considered to be a paraphyletic group of species.

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fossil insectsnew familynew genusrevisionscorpionfliestaxonomy

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 107 , Issue 2-3: Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber , June 2016 , pp. 145 - 149
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