Holcorpa

Holcorpa
Temporal range:
Holcorpa maculosa allotype
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mecoptera
Family: Holcorpidae
Willmann, 1989
Genus: Holcorpa
Scudder, 1878
Species
  • H. dillhoffi Archibald, 2010
  • H. maculosa Scudder, 1878 (type species)

Holcorpa is a genus of extinct insects in the scorpionfly order Mecoptera. Two Eocene age species found in Western North America were placed into the genus, H. dillhoffi and H. maculosa.

Holcorpa was the only known member of the extinct family Holcorpidae until 2017, when the Middle Jurassic member of the family, Conicholcorpa stigmosa, was described.