Worcestobia

Worcestobia; Temporal range: Carnian–Rhaetian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Mecoptera
Family:	Worcestobiidae; Soszyńska-Maj et al, 2017
Genus:	†Worcestobia; Soszyńska-Maj et al, 2017
Species
	Worcestobia gigantea (Tillyard, 1933); Worcestobia haradai (Ueda, 1991);

Worcestobia is an extinct genus of scorpionfly. It is the only member of the family Worcestobiidae. It was described to contain two species originally assigned to Orthophlebia. Worcestobia gigantea was originally described by Robert John Tillyard in 1933 for NHMUK I. 11102 a hindwing found in the Rhaetian aged Lilstock Formation near Strensham, Worcestershire, United Kingdom[1] The other species, Worcestobia haradai was described in 1991 from KMNH IP 000,002 a forewing found in the Carnian aged Momonoki Formation in a mine near Okuhata, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.[2] It is distinguished from other members of Panorpoidea by "the forking of Rs₂ into two long veins Rs_2a and Rs_2b"[3]

References

Tillyard, R. J. 1933.The Panorpid Complex in the British Rhaetic and Lias. Fossil Insects, No. 3. British Museum (Natural History),pp. 1–79.
Ueda, K. 1991. A Triassic fossil of scorpion fly from Mine, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 10, 99–103.
Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka; Krzemiński, Wiesław; Kopeć, Katarzyna; Coram, Robert A. (June 2016). "Worcestobiidae – a new Triassic family of Mecoptera, based on species removed from the family Orthophlebiidae". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 107 (2–3): 145–149. doi:10.1017/S1755691017000160. ISSN 1755-6910.

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[1] Tillyard, R. J. 1933.The Panorpid Complex in the British Rhaetic and Lias. Fossil Insects, No. 3. British Museum (Natural History),pp. 1–79.

[2] Ueda, K. 1991. A Triassic fossil of scorpion fly from Mine, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 10, 99–103.

[3] Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka; Krzemiński, Wiesław; Kopeć, Katarzyna; Coram, Robert A. (June 2016). "Worcestobiidae – a new Triassic family of Mecoptera, based on species removed from the family Orthophlebiidae". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 107 (2–3): 145–149. doi:10.1017/S1755691017000160. ISSN 1755-6910.