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Choristidae

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The Choristidae are a small (only eight species in three genera) family of scorpionflies known only from Australia. Their larvae are found in moss mats. ==Species== This list is adapted from the World Checklist of extant Mecoptera species: Choristidae (unless cited otherwise) and is complete as of 1997.

Species

FAMILY

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderMecoptera
  5. FamilyChoristidae
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Family
Choristidae
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AM
Recorded in
Australia

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The Choristidae are a small (only eight species in three genera) family of scorpionflies known only from Australia. Their larvae are found in moss mats. ==Species== This list is adapted from the World Checklist of extant Mecoptera species: Choristidae (unless cited otherwise) and is complete as of 1997. Chorista Klug, 1838 Chorista australis Klug, 1838 Chorista luteola Westwood, 1846 †Chorista sobrina Riek, 1952 Meridiochorista Lambkin, 1996 Meridiochorista insolita Riek, 1973 Meridiochorista ruficeps Newman, 1850 Taeniochorista Esben-Petersen, 1914 Taeniochorista bifurcata Riek, 1973 Taeniochorista nigrita Riek, 1973 Taeniochorista pallida Esben-Petersen, 1914 Taeniochorista similis Riek, 1973

==References==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Choristidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.