The first species of Thaumatomeropidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Middle Triassic of China.

Thaumatomeropidae is an enigmatic mecopteran family previously known exclusively from the Triassic Madygen entomofauna of Kyrgyzstan. Thaumatomeropids display mosaic venation, closely resembling those of Meropeidae and Eomeropidae, yet distinguished by some more primitive characters. Here we describe and illustrate a new thaumatomeropid species, Thaumatomerope sinensis Lian & Huang, sp.