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A Panorpoid (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Lower Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Julián F. Petrulevičius
Julián F. Petrulevičius*
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División Paleozoología Invertebrados, Museo de La Plata - Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, La Plata (1900), and CONICET, Argentina. Current address: Entomologie, CNRS UMR 7205, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 45, rue de Buffon, Paris 75005, France,
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The order Mecoptera is represented on all continents, albeit with an uneven distribution. Mecoptera includes about 34 families (Labandeira, 1994, p. 34), only four of them, until now, represented in South America: Permochoristidae Tillyard, 1917 (†) (Pinto, 1972); Bittacidae Handlirsch, 1906 [and stem-group “Neorthophlebinae” (†)] (Petrulevičius, 2001a, 2003, 2007); Nannochoristidae Tillyard, 1917; and Eomeropidae Cockerell, 1909. The two latter families have a present relict distribution in southern South America but without fossil record, obviously an artifact due to few studies of fossil insects in the subcontinent. The diversity of recent Bittacidae is high in South America with respect to other continents. Thirty-five percent of recent genera of Bittacidae come from South America, and 80% of these genera are endemic (extracted from Penny, 1997). Bittacidae is well represented in the fossil record, with species from the Jurassic of Patagonia (Petrulevičius, 2007), Lower Cretaceous of Brazil (Petrulevičius and Martins-Neto, 2001), to the late Paleocene of Argentina (Petrulevičius, 1998, 1999, 2001b, 2003). This contribution reports a specimen belonging to the Panorpoidea, a group with no recent species in South America and very few species in the entire Southern Hemisphere.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 83 , Issue 6 , November 2009 , pp. 994 - 997
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