Panorpodidae
Family of insects
| Panorpodidae Temporal range: Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Brachypanorpa montana | |
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| Panorpodes komaensis | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mecoptera |
| Superfamily: | Panorpoidea |
| Family: | Panorpodidae Handlirsch 1920 |
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The Panorpodidae are a small family of scorpionflies. Of the two genera, Brachypanorpa occurs only in the United States, and Panorpodes occurs in East Asia, with a single species in California.[1] Unlike their sister group Panorpidae, the family generally has short jaws, amongst the shortest of all mecopterans. Brachypanorpa is thought to be phytophagous, consuming the epidermis of soft leaves, and a similar diet is suggested for Panorpodes.[2]
Genera
The family contains extant 13 species in two genera:[1]
- Brachypanorpa Carpenter, 1931 (five species: United States)
- Panorpodes MacLachlan, 1875 (eight species: Japan, Korea, California) Fossil species known from Eocene aged Baltic amber
In addition, the following fossil genus is also known:
- †Austropanorpodes Petrulevicius 2009 Laguna del Hunco Formation, Argentina, Eocene (Ypresian)
References
- ^ a b "Panorpodidae". World Checklist of extant Mecoptera species. Archived from the original on April 8, 2005. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
- ^ Ma, Na; Huang, Jing; Hua, Baozhen (2013-03-22). Hejnol, Andreas (ed.). "Functional Morphology and Sexual Dimorphism of Mouthparts of the Short-Faced Scorpionfly Panorpodes kuandianensis (Mecoptera: Panorpodidae)". PLOS ONE. 8 (3): e60351. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0060351. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3606246. PMID 23533677.
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Extant Mecoptera and Siphonaptera families
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Infraclass: Neoptera
- Superorder: Holometabola
(scorpionflies)
- Eomeropidae (Notiothauma reedi)
- Meropeidae (earwigflies or forcepflies)
- Apteropanorpidae (Tasmanian snow scorpionflies)
- Boreidae (snow scorpionflies)
- Choristidae
- Bittacidae (hangingflies)
- Nannochoristidae
- Panorpidae (common scorpionflies)
- Panorpodidae (short-faced scorpionflies)
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Classification is based on Whiting, M. F. (2002)
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