Panorpodidae
Not to be confused with Panorpidae.
| Panorpodidae | |
|---|---|
|  Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Mecoptera | 
| Family: | Panorpodidae | 
| Genera | |
| 
 Brachypanorpa  | |
The Panorpodidae are a small family of scorpionflies. Of the two genera, Brachypanorpa occurs only in the United States, and Panorpodes occurs in Japan and Korea, with a species described in 2004 from California.[1]
Genera
The family contains 10 species in two genera:[1]
- Brachypanorpa Carpenter, 1931 (five species: United States)
 - Panorpodes MacLachlan, 1875 (five species: Japan, Korea, California)
 
References
- 1 2 "Panorpodidae". World Checklist of extant Mecoptera species. Retrieved April 3, 2010.
 
  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, February 05, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.