Insecta - Mecoptera - Orthophlebidae

Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1937. Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya Part I Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7:1-178

Belongs to Orthophlebia according to A. V. Martynov 1937

Sister taxa: Orthophlebia (Mesopanorpa), Orthophlebia aequalis, Orthophlebia angustata, Orthophlebia bella, Orthophlebia brunsvicensis, Orthophlebia capillata, Orthophlebia colorata, Orthophlebia compacta, Orthophlebia deformis, Orthophlebia diminuta, Orthophlebia elenae, Orthophlebia elongata, Orthophlebia exculpta, Orthophlebia extensa, Orthophlebia fallerslebensis, Orthophlebia germanica, Orthophlebia gigantea, Orthophlebia gracilis, Orthophlebia grandis, Orthophlebia haradai, Orthophlebia heidemariae, Orthophlebia jejuna, Orthophlebia laesa, Orthophlebia latebrosa, Orthophlebia latipennisimilis, Orthophlebia lauta, Orthophlebia liadis, Orthophlebia liassica, Orthophlebia limnophila, Orthophlebia longicauda, Orthophlebia luanpingensis, Orthophlebia maculata, Orthophlebia martynovae, Orthophlebia mongolica, Orthophlebia nana, Orthophlebia nervulosa, Orthophlebia obunca, Orthophlebia phryganoides, Orthophlebia pictipennis, Orthophlebia pygmaea, Orthophlebia radialis, Orthophlebia retorrida, Orthophlebia riccardii, Orthophlebia rotundipennis, Orthophlebia simillima, Orthophlebia sinuata, Orthophlebia stigmosa, Orthophlebia venosa, Orthophlebia vicina, Orthophlebia yangjuanxiangensis, Orthophlebia yaogouensis, Orthophlebioides stigmaticus, Orthophlebioides furcatus, Orthophlebioides parvulus, Orthophlebioides anglicus, Orthophlebioides fuscipennis

Type specimen: PIN 53/9, a forewing (forewing without base). Its type locality is Shurab II Ditch 63(8), which is in a Pliensbachian terrestrial horizon in the Sulyukta Formation of Tajikistan.

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Average measurements (in mm): forewing 12.8 x 3.5