†family Archeosmylidae Riek 1953 (lacewing)
Insecta - Neuroptera - Archeosmylidae
Full reference: E. F. Riek. 1953. Fossil mecopteroid insects from the Upper Permian of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 23(2):55-87
Parent taxon: Osmyloidea according to S. L. Winterton et al. 2019
See also Carpenter 1992, Makarkin et al. 2014, Riek 1953, Riek 1955 and Whalley 1988
Sister taxa: Momonokus, Natator, Nevrorthidae, Osmylidae, Saucrosmylidae, Sisyridae
Subtaxa: Archeosmylus Babykamenia Lithosmylidia Madygoneura Osmylotriasia Triasella
Type: Archeosmylus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (4 collections), Kyrgyzstan (3), the Russian Federation (1)
• Permian of Australia (1), South Africa (2)
Total: 11 collections including 15 occurrences