Choristidae
{{Short description|Family of insects}}
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| image = Scorpionfly (5584476733).jpg
| image_caption = Chorista australis
| taxon = Choristidae
| fossil_range = Eocene – Present
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = *Chorista
| authority = Esben-Petersen, 1915
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The Choristidae are a small (only eight species in three genera) family of scorpionflies known only from Australia. Their larvae are found in moss mats.
Species
:This list is adapted from the World Checklist of extant Mecoptera species: [https://archive.today/20040111035445/http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/Entomology_Resources/mecoptera/choristi.htm Choristidae] (unless cited otherwise) and is complete as of 1997.
- Chorista Klug, 1838
- Chorista australis Klug, 1838
- Chorista luteola Westwood, 1846
- †Chorista sobrina Riek, 1952{{Cite journal |last=Riek |first=E. F. |date=1952 |title=The fossil insects of the Tertiary Redbank Plains series. Part 1: an outline of the fossil assemblage with descriptions of the fossil insects of the orders Mecoptera and Neuroptera. |url=https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:296734/Dept_Geology_Papers_4_ns_1.pdf |journal=Papers - Department of Geology, University of Queensland |volume=4 |issue=1}}
- Meridiochorista Lambkin, 1996
- Meridiochorista insolita Riek, 1973
- Meridiochorista ruficeps Newman, 1850
- Taeniochorista Esben-Petersen, 1914
- Taeniochorista bifurcata Riek, 1973
- Taeniochorista nigrita Riek, 1973
- Taeniochorista pallida Esben-Petersen, 1914
- Taeniochorista similis Riek, 1973
References
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