Palaeoptilus Brongniart 1894 (winged insect)

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Spilapteridae

Full reference: C. Brongniart. 1894. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des insectes fossiles des temps primaires, précédées d'une étude sur la nervation des ailes des insectes. Thèses Présentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris 821:1-494

Parent taxon: Spilapteridae according to Y. J. Li et al. 2013

See also Carpenter 1992, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1919 and Kukalová 1969

Sister taxa: Abaptilon, Baeoneura, Becquerelia, Bizarrea, Delitzschala, Dunbaria, Epitethe, Epithele, Homaloneura, Lamproptilia, Lamproptilia stirrupi, Mcluckiepteron, Neuburgia, Paradunbaria, Permiakovia, Saxonyptilus, Sinodunbaria, Spilaptera, Spiloptilus, Tectoptilus, Tytthospilaptera, Vorkutoneura, Boltoniella, Palaeoneuriinae

Subtaxa: Palaeoptilus brullei

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Type: Palaeoptilus brullei

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll) (Carboniferous of France)

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