Insecta - Paoliida - Anthracoptilidae
Synonyms: Prostenoneuridae Handlirsch 1919 [objective synonym], Strephocladidae Martynov 1938, Strephoneuridae Martynov 1940
Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1922. Insecta Palaeozoica. Fossilium Catalogus. I: Animalia. Pars 16: Insecta Palaeozoica 1-230
Parent taxon: Paoliida according to Z. Y. Guan et al. 2016
See also Béthoux et al. 2010, Carpenter 1966, Carpenter 1992, Handlirsch 1919, Handlirsch 1922, Handlirsch 1937, Kukalová 1965, Martynov 1940, Nel et al. 2015, Prokop et al. 2015, Rasnitsyn 2004, Rasnitsyn and Aristov 2004 and Rasnitsyn and Aristov 2013
Sister taxa: Blattinopsidae, Katerinkidae, Paoliidae, Protoblattiniella, Evenkidae
Subtaxa: Adiphlebia Afrocladus Anthracoptilus Carrizocladus Graticladus Homocladus Jarmilacladus Lodevocladus Mesoptilus Mycteroptila Paracladus Rhinomaloptila Spargoptilon Strephocladus Strephoneura Strephoptilus Westphaloptilus
Type: Anthracoptilus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (1 collection), the Czech Republic (1), France (4), Kenya (1), the Russian Federation (9), South Africa (2), United States (7: Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma)
• Carboniferous of France (3), Germany (1), United States (5: Illinois)
Total: 34 collections including 42 occurrences