Eomeropidae

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Mecoptera
Family:Eomeropidae
Cockerell 1909
Eomeropidae
Temporal range: Sinemurian–Recent
Notiothauma reedi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mecoptera
Family: Eomeropidae
Cockerell 1909
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Eomeropidae is a family of aberrant, flattened scorpionflies represented today by only a single living species, Notiothauma reedi, known from the Nothofagus forests in southern Chile, while all other recognized genera in the family are known only as fossils, with the earliest definitive fossil known from Liassic-aged strata,[1][2] and the youngest from Paleogene-aged strata.[1][3]

Notiothauma adults are thought to be saprophagous with a preference for carrion, having been observed feeding on dead chickens and rabbits, though in one experimental study they were also observed feeding on plant material.[4]

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