Mesopsychidae Tillyard, 1917

Bashkuev, Alexei S., 2011, The earliest Mesopsychidae and revision of the family Mesopanorpodidae (Mecoptera), ZooKeys 130, pp. 263-279 : 267

Genus Mesopsychidae Tillyard, 1917

Mesopanorpodidae Tillyard, 1918, syn. n.

Included genera.

Mesopsyche Tillyard, 1917, Mesopanorpodes Tillyard, 1918, Vitimopsyche Novokshonov & Sukatsheva, 2001, Baissopsyche Novokshonov & Sukatsheva, 2001, Lychnomesopsyche Ren et al., 2009, Permopsyche Bashkuev, gen. n.

Remarks.

The genus Mesopanorpodes is restricted here to its type species, Mesopanorpodes wianamattensis . Though Mesopanorpodes appears venationally indistinguishable from Mesopsyche , it doesn’t seem appropriate to synonymize these genera prior to the complete revision of the latter. The genus Mesopsyche (sensu Novokshonov 1997c, Novokshonov and Sukacheva 2001) includes apparently quite diverse insects and is quite loosely defined and likely heterogeneous, so its further dividing into several genera cannot be excluded.