Panorpa mirabilis, Carpenter, 1931

Dickson, Kathryn, 2024, Catalogue of the Family Panorpidae (Mecoptera) in Canada, México and the United States, Zootaxa 5559 (1), pp. 1-63 : 28

mirabilis Carpenter, 1931

Panorpa mirabilis Carpenter 1931: 229 (description), fig 10 (♂ genital bulb), fig 48 (♀ genital plate); Frost & Brown 1955: 56 (PA checklist); Boese 1973: 176 (4th instar larva, general morphology, chaetotaxy, key to species); Thornhill & Johnson 1974: 50 (key, distribution and habitat in MI), fig 16 (♂ genital bulb), fig 23 (♀ genital plate), fig 53 (MI distribution map); Webb et al. 1975: 299 (description), fig 76 (forewing), fig 110 (ventral paramere), fig 111 (♂ genital bulb), fig 150 (♀ genital plate), fig 173 (distribution); Thornhill 1979: 886 (pair formation pheromones); Thornhill 1980a: 180 (ecological and behavioural interactions of Panorpa in MI woodland); Thornhill, 1980b: 55 (test of mating behaviour); Thornhill 1981: 363 (reproductive behavior); Aranguren 1987: 107 (description/figures ♂ ♀ incl. genitalia, distribution, first record for Canada [in ON], habitat); Byers 1988: 27 (hypotheses on geographic location of origin of mirabilis and galerita ); Cheung et al. 2006: 9 (distribution in ON, photos ♂ genital bulb and wing); Missoweit & Sauer 2007: 1207 (reproductive strategy contrasted to European species alpina, vulgaris); Flint, et al. 2020: 7 (key), 13 (new records from VA, seasonal and locality records), fig 36 (wings), fig 60 (♂ genital bulb), map 25 (distribution in VA); Wang & Hua, 2021: 546 (morphological evidence for polyphyly of Panorpa ).

Holotype ♂: USNM [ USNMENT24839087 ]. USA. NJ, Sussex Co., Andover , 24.v.1923, F. Schott.

Allotype ♀: UMMZ [UMMZI-00302532]. USA. MI, Cheboygan Co., Douglas Lake , 1.vii.1925, C. F. Byers . Paratypes: UMMZ (2♂, 9♀) , MCZC (1U); location unknown (5U).

Distribution: Canada; ON, QC*. USA; MD*, MI, NH*, NJ, NY, PA, VA.