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| Paratype of Dualula | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mecoptera |
| Superfamily: | †Mesopsychoidea |
| Family: | †Pseudopolycentropodidae Handlirsch, 1920 |
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Dualulidae Lin, Shih, Labandeira and Ren, 2019 | |
Pseudopolycentropodidae is an extinct family of scorpionflies known from the Mesozoic. Fossils are known from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) to the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian). It is part of Mesopsychoidea, a group of scorpionflies with siphonate proboscis. They are suggested to have been nectarivores, feeding off the liquid pollination drops and acting as pollinators for now extinct insect pollinated gymnosperms such as Bennettitales.[1][2]
- ^ Zhao X, Wang B, Bashkuev AS, Aria C, Zhang Q, Zhang H, et al. (March 2020). "Mouthpart homologies and life habits of Mesozoic long-proboscid scorpionflies". Science Advances. 6 (10): eaay1259. Bibcode:2020SciA....6.1259Z. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aay1259. PMC 7056314. PMID 32181343.
- ^ Lin X, Labandeira CC, Shih C, Hotton CL, Ren D (March 2019). "Life habits and evolutionary biology of new two-winged long-proboscid scorpionflies from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 1235. Bibcode:2019NatCo..10.1235L. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09236-4. PMC 6420582. PMID 30874563.