Notiothauma

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Mecoptera

Familia: Eomeropidae
Genus: Notiothauma
Species (1): N. reedi
Name

Notiothauma McLachlan, 1877
Original status: valid genus
Flagged as new: McLachlan, 1877: 427 ('gen. nov.')
Gender: feminine
Type species: Notiothauma reedi McLachlan, 1877
Fixation: monotypy

References

Crampton, G.C. 1930: The wings of the remarkable archaic mecopteron Notiothauma reedi McLachlan with remarks on their protoblattoid affinities. Psyche, 37(1): 83–103. DOI: 10.1155/1930/53195
McLachlan, R. 1877: XXVII. On Notiothauma Reedi, a remarkable new genus and species of Neuroptera from Chili, pertaining to the family Panorpidæ. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 1877(4): 427–430. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1877.tb02923.x
Pena, L.E. 1968: Natural history notes on Notiothauma. Discovery, 4(1): 43–44.

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Notiothauma is the sole living genus in the scorpionfly family Eomeropidae. The genus is monotypic with a lone species Notiothauma reedi which is native to the Valdivian temperate rain forests of central Chile, especially the forests with Nothofagus stands. N. reedi is flattened with a notedly cockroach-like in appearance. They are nocturnal and inhabit the forest floor where the adults feed on plants and decaying animals.[1] The larvae are still unknown. Because this is the last extant species of Eomeropidae, N. reedi can be characterized as a living fossil taxon.[2]

Phylogeny

The proposed phylogenetic relationships of N. reedi based on Soszyńska-Maj et al 2016.[3]
 

	Eomeropidae     Jurachorista     Jurathauma           Eomerope         Tsuschingothauma       Notiothauma     Typhothauma

 
References

Ortloff, A.; Albornoz, S.; Romero, M.; Vivallo, G. (2016). "Skin artefacts due to post-mortem damage caused by Notiothauma reedi: A insect of forensic importance in forest communities of Chile". Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences. 6 (4): 411–415. doi:10.1016/j.ejfs.2016.06.006.
Archibald, S. B.; Rasnitsyn, A. P.; Akhmetiev, M. A. (2005). "Ecology and distribution of Cenozoic Eomeropidae (Mecoptera), and a new species of Eomerope Cockerell from the Early Eocene McAbee locality, British Columbia, Canada". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 98 (45): 503–514.
Soszyńska-Maj, A.; Krzemiński, W.; Kopeć, K.; Coram, R. A. (2016). "Phylogenetic relationships within the relict family Eomeropidae (Insecta, Mecoptera) based on the oldest fossil from the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian) of Dorset, southern England". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 14 (12): 1025–1031. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1139007. ISSN 1477-2019.