†Belmontia Tillyard 1919 (scorpionfly)
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Insecta - Mecoptera - Belmontiidae
Synonym: Parabelmontia Tillyard 1922
Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1919. A fossil insect wing belonging to the new order Paramecoptera, ancestral to the Trichoptera and Lepidoptera from the Upper Coal-Measures of Newcastle, NSW. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 44:231-256
Parent taxon: Belmontiidae according to V. G. Novokshonov 1997
See also Carpenter 1992, Riek 1953, Willmann 1978 and Willmann 1989
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Belmontia mitchelli
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections including 4 occurrences
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