Three new species of Mecoptera (Insecta, Antliophora) from Yunnan, China

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Xie, Jiao, Wang, Ji-Shen (2025): Three new species of Mecoptera (Insecta, Antliophora) from Yunnan, China. European Journal of Taxonomy 997: 275-288, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.997.2939, URL: europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2939/13283 Abstract. The hangingflies (Bittacidae Handlirsch, 1906) and the scorpionflies (Panorpidae Latreille, 1802) are the two largest groups within the holometabolous order Mecoptera Packard, 1886.

In this paper, a new hangingfly and two new scorpionflies are described: 1) Bittacus yunlongensis sp. nov., characterized by the greatly elongated and finger-shaped distal portion of male epandrial lobe, and greatly elongated upper and lower branches of proctiger; 2) Dicerapanorpa dajinhuang sp. nov., recognized mainly by the ventral branch of male parameres bearing small barbs on inner margin; and 3) D. jialiangjiei sp. nov., characterized by the bifurcated middle branch and sinuate distal portion of dorsal branch of male parameres.