Australian Museum Journal Fossil mecopteroid insects from the Upper Permian of New South Wales
- Shortform:
- Riek, 1953, Rec. Aust. Mus. 23(2): 55–87
- Author(s):
- Riek, E. F.
- Year published:
- 1953
- Title:
- Fossil mecopteroid insects from the Upper Permian of New South Wales
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 23
- Issue:
- 2
- Start page:
- 55
- End page:
- 87
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.23.1953.621
- Language:
- English
- Plates:
- plates v–vi
- Date published:
- 17 April 1953
- Cover date:
- 17 April 1953
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- INSECTA; PERMIAN: LATE; FOSSIL
- Digitized:
- 22 April 2009
- Available online:
- 22 July 2009
- Reference number:
- 621
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (126kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (5879kb PDF)
Abstract
This paper deals with the Mecoptera and all the related orders of insects collected from the Upper Permian strata between Belmont and Warner's Bay, New South Wales. All the material described is in the Collection of the Australian Museum, Sydney. Tillyard published several papers dealing with the early collections of insects from these beds but the more recent and rather extensive collections remain unworked except mainly for the Homoptera and Psocoptera. The present material extends considerably our knowledge of the previously described species and has brought to light a great wealth of new forms....