Insecta - Dicondylia - Metropatoridae
Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Revision of American Paleozoic insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29(1441):661-820
Parent taxon: Neoptera according to J. Prokop et al. 2017
See also Carpenter 1965, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1919 and Handlirsch 1922
Sister taxa: Ampelipteridae, Apheloneuridae, Archaemiopteridae, Archipanorpidae, Asiuropidae, Baryshnyalidae, Blattoneoptera, Boltonocostidae, Choristosialidae, Clareocercaria, Controversala, Dictyodipteridae, Dictyophara scudderi, Endoneoptera, Eopanorpella, Exopterygota, Gelasopteridae, Glosselytrodea, Hemineoptera, Holometabola, Mesophthiridae, Metropatorites, Micropalentomidae, Mixotermitoidea, Naucoris crassus, Oiophassus, Orthoneoptera, Palaeoheteroptera, Palaeonepidoideus, Paraneoptera, Perielytridae, Permembiidae, Permosialidae, Polyneoptera, Prosigara, Psocodea, Saurodectidae, Sibosmylina, Sinembiidae, Sphalmatoblattina, Sycopteridae, Sycopteron, Synomaloptilidae, Tillyardites, Trachopterygidae, Triadochorista, Trichorthophlebia, Uninervidae
Subtaxa: Metropator
Type: Metropator
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Altamont Colliery (Carboniferous of Pennsylvania)