An annotated catalog of the type material of Mecoptera deposited in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods in Gainesville, Florida, USA Author Keller, Oliver 0000-0001-5067-3316 Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, P. O. Box 147100, Gainesville, FL 32614 - 7100, USA keller1977@gmail.com Author Somma, Louis A. 0000-0003-3714-0560 Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, P. O. Box 147100, Gainesville, FL 32614 - 7100, USA & Louis. Somma @ fdacs. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3714 - 0560 omma@fdacs.gov text Zootaxa 2023 2023-10-04 5352 3 399 410 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5352.3.4 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5352.3.4 1175-5326 8407421 52FCD0A5-EA03-4A59-A4FA-9A0E224F37FE Panorpa bichai Byers, 1993: 70 Paratype : ? ♁. Tennessee Conservation status: ? Additional notes: No specific information were given about which and how many paratypes were deposited in the FSCA in Byers (1993) . A letter from George W. Byers to Harold V . Weems ( Head Curator , FDACS-DPI , deceased), in the Harold V . Weems correspondence files, FSCA , dated 11 February 1990 , suggests he temporarily held off sending paratypes to the collection. No subsequent correspondence exists to indicate the paratypes were ever received by FSCA .