Insecta - Permotrichoptera - Microptysmatidae

Alternative combination: Permomerope nanus

Full reference: E. F. Riek. 1953. Fossil mecopteroid insects from the Upper Permian of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2):55-87

Belongs to Microptysmodes according to I. D. Sukatscheva 1976

Sister taxa: Kamopanorpa grossa, Kamopanorpa karaungirica, Kamopanorpa lata, Kamopanorpa latipennata, Kamopanorpa pritykinae, Kamopanorpa rotundipennis, Kamopanorpa sibirica, Kamopanorpa sukatchevae, Kamopanorpa uralensis, Microptysmodes mongolicus

Type specimen: AM F40233, a forewing. Its type locality is Warner's Bay, Belmont (AMF coll), which is in a Changhsingian pond chert in the Croudace Bay Formation of Australia.

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Average measurements (in mm): forewing length 7.50