Protorthophlebia punctata Soszynska-Maj et al., 2019

Taxonomy

Scorpionfly

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille 1829
Class: Insecta Linnaeus, 1758
Order: Mecoptera Packard 1886
Family: Protorthophlebiidae Soszyńska-Maj, Krzemiński & Kopeć 2019
Genus: Protorthophlebia
Species: Protorthophlebia punctata
Author Citation Soszynska-Maj et al., 2019

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Middle
International Age: Callovian to Oxfordian

Stratigraphy

Jiulongshan Formation
Daohugou Bed

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Dimensions

Length: 11 mm

Location

Daohugou (Village)
Ningcheng (County)
Inner Mongolia (Province)
China

• daohugou
• inner mongolia
• jiulongshan
• jurassic
• protorthophlebia
• scorpionfly
• tff-oilshale-ar2774

Comments

Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.
Male scorpionfly. 
Species name reflects the characteristic pattern marking of the wings.
Diagnosis from Soszyńska-Maj et al. 2019, p. 9: "Species differs from remaining congeneric by combination of the following characters: numerous oval-shaped small regular dark spots on the membrane all situated between veins spread evenly throughout the whole wings, more transparent areas than dark, Rs forks slightly beyond Mb forks in forewing, Rs₁₊₂ almost twice as long and Rs₃₊₄, basal part of M_4b in forewing and M₄ in hindwing strongly oblique and situated with cross-vein m-cu on one line."
Line drawing from Soszyńska-Maj et al. 2019, p. 13 :

References:
Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj, Wiesław Krzemiński, Katarzyna Kopeć, Yizi Cao, Ren, Wiesław Krzemiński & Katarzyna Kopeć (2019): New Middle Jurassic fossils shed light on the relationship of recent Panorpoidea (Insecta, Mecoptera), Historical Biology, DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2018.1564747