Insecta - Neuroptera - Myrmeleontidae
Synonym: Ascalaphidae Lefebure 1842
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467
Parent taxon: Myrmeleontoidea according to M. S. Engel et al. 2018
See also Carpenter 1992, Engel and Grimaldi 2008, Machado et al. 2019, Makarkin et al. 2018, Makarkin et al. 2013, Martins-Neto 2002 and Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989
Sister taxa: Adelpholeon, Babinskaiidae, Burmitus, Chrysoleonites, Cratosmylidae, Cretoleon, Diodontognathus, Electrocaptivus, Mesoptynx, Microsmylus, Myrmeleontoidae, Nemopteridae, Nymphidae, Nymphidoidae, Rafaelianidae
Subtaxa: Amoea Ascalaphus Ascaloptynx Borgia Cratoscalapha Neadelphus Prosuhpalacsa Pseudoameropterus Ricartus Ululodes
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of Croatia (1 collection), the Dominican Republic (2), France (1)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), France (1), Germany (1)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2), United States (2: Colorado, Montana)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (11), China (3), Lebanon (1), Myanmar (3)
Total: 29 collections including 43 occurrences