Orthophlebiidae

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Orthophlebiidae
Temporal range: Middle Triassic–Cenomanian
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Species of Orthophlebia and Mesopanorpa from the Middle Jurassic of China
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Mecoptera
Superfamily: Panorpoidea
Family: Orthophlebiidae
Handlirsch, 1906
Genera

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Orthophlebiidae is an extinct family of scorpionflies known from the Triassic to Cretaceous, belonging to the superfamily Panorpoidea. The family is poorly defined and is probably paraphyletic, representing many primitive members of Panorpoidea with most species only known from isolated wings, and has such been considered a wastebasket taxon. [1] [2]

Systematics

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Orthophlebiidae Jurassic China

Based on [3]

The genus Protorthophlebia has been moved to the separate family Protorthophlebiidae. [4]

References

  1. Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka; Krzemiński, Wiesław; Kopeć, Katarzyna; Cao, Yizi; Ren, Dong (March 2018). "Large Jurassic Scorpionflies Belonging to a New Subfamily of the Family Orthophlebiidae (Mecoptera)" . Annales Zoologici. 68 (1): 85–92. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.1.004. ISSN   0003-4541. S2CID   90298406.
  2. Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka; Krzemiński, Wiesław; Kopeć, Katarzyna; Coram, Robert A. (June 2016). "Worcestobiidae – a new Triassic family of Mecoptera, based on species removed from the family Orthophlebiidae" . Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 107 (2–3): 145–149. doi:10.1017/S1755691017000160. ISSN   1755-6910. S2CID   134871834.
  3. "Fossilworks: Orthophlebiidae". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  4. 1 2 Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka; Krzemiński, Wiesław; Kopeć, Katarzyna; Cao, Yizi; Ren, Dong (2020-09-13). "New Middle Jurassic fossils shed light on the relationship of recent Panorpoidea (Insecta, Mecoptera)" . Historical Biology. 32 (8): 1081–1097. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1564747. ISSN   0891-2963. S2CID   91591311.