Insecta - Neuroptera - Psychopsidae
Alternative spellings: Psychopidae, Psychopsinae, Psychopsydae
Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640
Parent taxon: Psychopsoidea according to M. S. Engel et al. 2018
See also Bode 1953, Carpenter 1992, Engel and Grimaldi 2008, Handlirsch 1906, Hong 1982, Martins-Neto 1997, Martins-Neto 2002, Martynova 1949, Panfilov 1980, Tillyard 1922, Tillyard 1923 and Whalley 1988
Sister taxa: Aetheogrammatidae, Fiaponeura, Grammolingiidae, Kalligrammatidae, Osmylopsychopidae, Osmylopsychopsidae, Prohemerobiidae, Psychopsididae
Subtaxa: Acanthopsychops Actinoptilon Ainigmapsychops Alloepipsychopsis Angaropsychops Apeirophlebia Aphthartopsychops Arctopsychops Baisopsychops Beipiaopsychops Calopsychops Cretapsychops Electropsychops Embaneura Epipsychopsis Gigantopsychops Grammapsychops Kagapsychops Lasiopsychops Litopsychopsis Micropsychops Miopsychopsis Propsychops Propsychopsis Psychopsis Psychopsites Pterinoblattina Pulchroptilonia Purbepsychopsis Putzneura Sinopsychops Triassopsychops Trichophlebia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (2)
• Eocene of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Washington)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (2), China (2), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (2), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (4), the Russian Federation (8), the United Kingdom (11), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Jurassic of China (4), Germany (2), Kazakhstan (3), the Russian Federation (1)
• Triassic of Australia (2)
Total: 51 collections including 66 occurrences