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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mecoptera |
| Family: | †Permotanyderidae |
| Genus: | †Permotanyderus |
| Species: | †P. ableptus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Permotanyderus ableptus Riek, 1953
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Permotanyderus is an extinct genus of protodipteran insect of the Permotanyderidae family, first described[1] by Edgar F. Riek in Australia in 1953 and which contains a single species P. ableptus.[2]
Evidence of the presence of Diptera or their direct predecessors in the Upper Permian of Australia is shown by the presence of Mecoptera in those formations. The Paratrichoptera of the Upper Permian probably, and those of the Triassic certainly, have been considered survivors of the maternal group. Riek described in 1953 two species of protodipteran of the Upper Permian of Australia: Permotanyderus ableptus and Choristotanyderus nanus joining Permotipula patricia named by Tillyard in 1929, but these cannot be attributed to any of the sub-groups of the dipterans or their direct predecessors.[3]
- ^ Riek, Edgar F. (1953) "Fossil mecopteroid insects from the Upper Permian of New South Wales" Records of the Australian Museum 23: pp. 55–87, page 75
- ^ Evenhuis, Neal L. (in preparation) "Appendix II. Fossil Diptera of Australasia and Oceania" to Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions
- ^ S.C. Willemstein. An evolutionary basis for pollination ecology. Pág. 97. ISBN 90-04-08457-6.