Eorpa (insect)
| Eorpa Temporal range:
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| Eorpa elverumi holotype | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mecoptera |
| Superfamily: | Panorpoidea |
| Family: | †Eorpidae Archibald, Mathewes, & Greenwood, 2013 |
| Genus: | †Eorpa Archibald, Mathewes, & Greenwood, 2013 |
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Eorpidae is a small family of extinct insects in the scorpionfly order, Mecoptera, which contains a single genus, Eorpa. Three Eocene age species found in Western North America have been placed into the genus: E. elverumi, E. jurgeni, and E. ypsipeda.