Worcestobia

Worcestobia
Temporal range: Carnian–Rhaetian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 Rs2a and Rs2b"[3]

  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. S2CID 134871834.