Panorpodidae

Taxobox
name = Short-faced scorpionflies
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Mecoptera
familia = Panorpodidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "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).

pecies

This list is adapted from the "World Checklist of extant Mecoptera species": [http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/Entomology_Resources/mecoptera/panorpod.htm 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)