Notiothauma: Difference between revisions

| image_caption = ''[[NotiothaumaOncol reediPark]], [[Chile]]''

'''''Notiothauma''''' is the sole living genus in the [[scorpionfly]] family [[Eomeropidae]]. The genus is monotypic with a lone species '''''Notiothauma reedi''''' which is native to the [[Valdivian temperate rain forest]]s of central Chile, especially the forests with ''[[Nothofagus]]'' stands. ''N. reedi'' is flattened with a notedly [[cockroach]]-like in appearance. They are nocturnal and inhabit the forest floor where the adults feed on plants and decaying animals.<ref name="Ortloff2016">{{cite journal |last1=Ortloff |first1=A. |last2=Albornoz |first2=S. |last3=Romero |first3=M. |last4=Vivallo |first4=G. |year=2016 |title=Skin artefacts due to post-mortem damage caused by ''Notiothauma reedi'': A insect of forensic importance in forest communities of Chile |journal=Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=411-415411–415 |doi=10.1016/j.ejfs.2016.06.006|doi-access=free }}</ref> The larvae are still unknown. Because this is the last extant species of Eomeropidae, ''N. reedi'' can be characterized as a [[living fossil]] taxon.<ref name=Archibald>{{cite journal |last1=Archibald |first1=S. B. |last2=Rasnitsyn |first2=A. P. |last3=Akhmetiev |first3=M. A. |year=2002005 |title=Ecology and distribution of Cenozoic Eomeropidae (Mecoptera), and a new species of ''Eomerope'' Cockerell from the Early Eocene McAbee locality, British Columbia, Canada |journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America |volume=98 |issue=45 |pages=503-514503–514}}</ref>

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