Insecta - Neuroptera - Osmylidae
Parent taxon: Osmyloidea according to S. L. Winterton et al. 2019
See also Carpenter 1992, Engel and Grimaldi 2008, Engel et al. 2018, Menon and Makarkin 2008 and Riek 1955
Sister taxa: Archeosmylidae, Momonokus, Natator, Nevrorthidae, Saucrosmylidae, Sisyridae
Subtaxa: Archaeosmylidia Dimidiosmylus Dzhidosmylus Eidoporisminae Erlikosmylus Gumillinae Karaosmylus Kempyninae Kubekius Mesosmylidus Mesosmylininae Osmylinae Osmylopsis Palaeothyridosmylus Petrushevskia Pronymphites Protosmylinae Scapoptera Spilosmylinae Stenochrysa Tengriosmylus Tetanoptilon
Type: Osmylus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Romania (1 collection)
• Eocene of Australia (3), Canada (2: British Columbia), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (9: Colorado, Washington)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (2), Myanmar (4), the Russian Federation (4), the United Kingdom (4)
• Jurassic of China (7), Germany (3), Kazakhstan (7), Kyrgyzstan (6), Mongolia (3), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 59 collections including 97 occurrences