Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae
Synonym: Ororaphidiinae Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger 2011
Full reference: A. V. Martynov. 1925. To the knowledge of fossil insects from Jurassic beds in Turkestan. 1. Raphidioptera. Izvestiya Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk 19(6-8):233-246
Parent taxon: Mesoraphidiidae according to Y. Chen et al. 2024
See also Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger 2011, Lu et al. 2015, Lyu et al. 2017, Lyu et al. 2018, Lyu et al. 2020 and Zhang et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Alloraphidiinae, Nanoraphidiini
Subtaxa: Alavaraphidia Allocotoraphidia Amarantoraphidia Baisoraphidia Beipiaoraphidia Caloraphidia Cretinocellia Grammoraphidia Huaxiaraphidia Iberoraphidia Jilinoraphidia Kezuoraphidia Mesoraphidia Necroraphidia Ororaphidia Proraphidia Siboptera Sinoraphidia Stenoraphidia Styporaphidia Xuraphidia Yanoraphidia
Type: Mesoraphidia
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of China (13 collections), Mongolia (1), North Korea (1), the Russian Federation (4), South Korea (1), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (6)
• Jurassic of China (3), Kazakhstan (3), Mongolia (1)
Total: 37 collections including 76 occurrences