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| Notiothauma reedi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mecoptera |
| Family: | Eomeropidae Cockerell 1909 |
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Eomeropidae is a family of aberrant, flattened scorpionflies represented today by only a single living species, Notiothauma reedi, known from the Nothofagus forests in southern Chile, while all other recognized genera in the family are known only as fossils, with the earliest definitive fossil known from Liassic-aged strata,[1][2] and the youngest from Paleogene-aged strata.[1][3]
- ^ a b Zhang Junxia; et al. (2011). "A new fossil eomeropid (Insecta, Mecoptera) from the Jiulongshan Formation, Inner Mongolia, China". Zoosystema. 33 (4): 443–450. doi:10.5252/z2011n4a2. hdl:11336/153453. S2CID 86466025.
- ^ Wang, Haoyi; Yao, Zongquan; Wang, Jun; Li, Qi; Yang, Jiangfeng (2023-08-29). "The first discovery of Eomeropidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Lower Jurassic of northwestern China". Historical Biology: 1–5. doi:10.1080/08912963.2023.2250821. ISSN 0891-2963.
- ^ Archibald, S. Bruce, Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, and Mikhail A. Akhmetiev. "Ecology and distribution of Cenozoic Eomeropidae (Mecoptera), and a new species of Eomerope Cockerell from the Early Eocene McAbee locality, British Columbia, Canada." Annals of the Entomological Society of America 98.4 (2005): 503-514.