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Table 4 Summary of the species excluded with reasons for exclusion

From: New data from the Middle Jurassic of China shed light on the phylogeny and origin of the proboscis in the Mesopsychidae (Insecta: Mecoptera)

Excluded species

Reasons for exclusion

Baissopsyche pura

Forewing venation not complete, key characters missing

Mesopsyche ordinata

Forewing width/length ratio at 0.48 much higher than that of all others (with typical ratio between 0.30 and 0.35 and two outliers at 0.27 and 0.38)

Mesopsyche justa

Base of forewing missing for holotype; inconsistent venation among holotype and paratypes.

Mesopsyche gentica

Base of forewing missing

Mesopsyche tortiva

Incomplete forewing and base of hind wing missing

Mesopsyche incompleta

Incomplete fore- and hind wings

Mesopsyche javorskii

Hind wing only

Mesopsyche tongchuanensis

Incomplete forewing only

Mesopanorpodes wianamattensis

Anal area of forewing missing

Permopsyche robustus

Incomplete forewing only

Mesoses optata

Incomplete forewing only

Mesoses magna

Incomplete forewing only

Mesoses gayndah

Incomplete forewing only

Ptychopteropsis mirabilis

Incomplete forewing only

Turanopsyche venosa

Incomplete hind wing only

Ferghanopsyche rotundata

Incomplete forewing only