Panorpa virginica, Banks, 1906

Dickson, Kathryn, 2024, Catalogue of the Family Panorpidae (Mecoptera) in Canada, México and the United States, Zootaxa 5559 (1), pp. 1-63 : 41

virginica Banks, 1906

Panorpa virginica Banks 1906: 99 (♂ description), fig (♂ genitalia); Banks 1907: 33 (updated NA species list, added new species found in VA); Banks 1908: 154 (NC species list); Sherman 1908: 54 (early- and late season species in NC); Esben-Petersen 1915: 224 (list of American species); Esben-Petersen 1921: 70 (description), fig 74 (♂ genital bulb); Carpenter 1931: 233 (description, designated syntypes, new records from AR, GA, MI, NC, NJ, SC, TN), fig 15 (♂ genital bulb), fig 52 (♀ genital plate); Byers 1962b: 307 (new records from OH, MI (now hungerfordi )); Mampe & Neunzig 1965: 844 (description of larvae); Byers 1973: 367 (noted geographic separation of two forms, restricted virginica to the eastern form and described P. hungerfordi as the western form), figs 14, 16 (dististyle); Byers 1993: 65 (distribution), fig 14 (♀ genital plate), map 3 (part of range); Evans & Flint 2009: 58 (habitat in VA); Flint 2013: 129 ( virginica complex, including oconee and choctaw , distinguished by projecting aedeagal hamulus); Flint, et al. 2020: 7 (key), 15 (VA seasonal and locality records), fig 44 (wings), fig 8 (♂ genital bulb), map 32 (distribution in VA); Wang & Hua, 2021: 546 (morphological evidence for polyphyly of Panorpa ).

Syntype ♂: MCZC [ MCZ-ENT00011268 ]. USA. VA, Glencarlyn, near Falls Church, 10.x, N. Banks . Syntype ♀: MCZC [ MCZ-ENT00640982 ]. USA. VA, Glencarlyn, near Falls Church, 6.vi, N. Banks .

Distribution: USA; CT, GA, NC, NJ, SC, TN, VA, WV*.