Choristidae
| Choristidae | |
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| Chorista australis | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Mecoptera | 
| Family: | Esben-Petersen, 1915  | 
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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[1]
 
 - 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
- ^ Riek, E. F. (1952). "The fossil insects of the Tertiary Redbank Plains series. Part 1: an outline of the fossil assemblage with descriptions of the fossil insects of the orders Mecoptera and Neuroptera" (PDF). Papers - Department of Geology, University of Queensland. 4 (1).
 
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