Panorpodidae

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Short-faced scorpionflies
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Mecoptera Family: Panorpodidae
Genera
Brachypanorpa Panorpodes

Short-faced scorpionflies (Panorpodidae) are a small family of scorpionflies. There are two genera, Brachypanorpa, which occurs only in the United States, and Panorpodes, which occurs primarily in Japan (one recently-described species is known from California).

[edit] Species

This list is adapted from the World Checklist of extant Mecoptera species: Panorpodidae and considered complete as of 2004.

• Brachypanorpa Carpenter, 1931

• Brachypanorpa carolinensis Banks, 1905 (North Carolina)
• Brachypanorpa jeffersoni Byers, 1976 (USA)
• Brachypanorpa montana Carpenter, 1931 (Oregon)
• Brachypanorpa oregonensis McLachlan, 1881 (USA)
• Brachypanorpa sacajawea Byers, 1990 (USA)

• Panorpodes MacLachlan, 1875

• Panorpodes colei Byers, 2004 (California)
• Panorpodes komaensis Okamoto, 1925 (Korea)
• Panorpodes maculatus Miyamoto, 1984 (Japan)
• Panorpodes paradoxus McLachlan, 1875 (Japan)
• Panorpodes pulcher Issiki, 1927 (Japan)