Family Raphidiidae Latreille 1810 (snakefly)

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Raphidiidae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1810. Considérations Générales sur l'Ordre Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides, et des Insectes; Avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres, Disposés en Familles 1-444

Parent taxon: Neoraphidioptera according to M. S. Engel et al. 2018

See also Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger 2011, Carpenter 1992, Engel 2002 and Perrichot and Engel 2007

Sister taxon: Inocelliidae

Subtaxa: Archiinocellia Archiraphidia Florissantoraphidia Macrostigmoraphia Megaraphidia Ohmella Raphidia Raphidiinae Succinoraphidiinae

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Type: Raphidia

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of France (2 collections), United States (1: Nevada)

• Oligocene of France (1), United States (1: Colorado)

• Eocene of Canada (5: British Columbia), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1), United States (15: Colorado, Montana, Washington)

Total: 28 collections including 34 occurrences

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