Mesopsychidae

Mesopsychidae is an extinct family of scorpionflies known from the Late Permian to Mid Cretaceous. It is part of Mesopsychoidea, a group of scorpionflies with siphonate proboscis. They are suggested to have been nectarivores, feeding off the liquid pollination drops and acting as pollinators for now extinct insect pollinated gymnosperms such as Bennettitales.[1]

Mesopsychidae
Temporal range: Late Permian–Aptian
Lichnomesopsyche daohugouensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mecoptera
Superfamily: †Mesopsychoidea
Family: †Mesopsychidae
Tillyard, 1917
Genera

See text

Systematics
  • Afristella Riek 1974 Molteno Formation, South Africa, Carnian
  • Allochorista Hong 2007 Tongchuan Formation, China, Ladinian
  • Baissopsyche Novokshonov and Sukacheva 2001 Sharin-Gol Formation, Mongolia, Barremian, Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • Epicharmesopsyche Shih et al. 2013 Daohugou, China, Callovian
  • Ferghanopsyche Martynov 1937 Sulyukta Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Toarcian
  • Lichnomesopsyche Ren et al. 2009 Daohugou, China, Callovian
  • Mesopanorpodes Ren et al. 2009 Vokhma Formation, Russia, Changhsingian, Ashfield Shale, Australia, Anisian, Tongchuan Formation, China, Ladinian
  • Mesopsyche Tillyard 1917 (Possibly paraphyletic[1]) Vyazniki Formation, Mal'tseva Formation, Russia, Changhsingian, Blackstone Formation, Australia, Norian, Tongchuan Formation, China, Ladinian, Madygen Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Carnian, Amisan Formation, South Korea, Norian, Protopivka Formation, Ukraine, Norian
  • Mesoses Riek 1976 Gayndah Formation, Australia, Anisian, Molteno Formation, South Africa, Carnian
  • Permopsyche Bashkuev 2011 Croudace Bay Formation, Australia, Changhsingian, Poldarsa Formation, Russia, Wuchiapingian
  • Ptychopteropsis Martynov 1937 Sulyukta Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Toarcian
  • Sogdopsyche Martynov 1937 Jiulongshan Formation, China, Callovian Sulyukta Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Toarcian
  • Tarantogus Sukatsheva 1985 Itat Formation, Russia, Bajocian-Bathonian
  • Tipulidites Wieland 1925 Potrerillos Formation, Argentina, Carnian
  • Turanopsyche Martynov 1937 Sulyukta Formation, Kyrgyzstan, Toarcian
  • Undisca Sukacheva 1990 Glushkovo Formation, Tithonian
  • Vitimopsyche Novokshonov and Sukacheva 2001 Daohugou, China, Callovian, Yixian Formation, China, Aptian Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • Xinjiangia Hong 1983 Kezileinuer Formation, Xinjiang, China, Bajocian

References
  1. Lin X, Shih MJ, Labandeira CC, Ren D (January 2016). "New data from the Middle Jurassic of China shed light on the phylogeny and origin of the proboscis in the Mesopsychidae (Insecta: Mecoptera)". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16 (1): 1. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0575-y. PMC 4700641. PMID 26727998.
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