Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Spilapteridae
Synonyms: Doropteridae Zalessky 1946, Dunbariidae Handlirsch 1937, Lamproptilidae Handlirsch 1906, Neuburgiidae Rohdendorf 1961
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: Spilapteroidea according to K. Rosová et al. 2022
See also Brauckmann and Schneider 1996, Brauckmann et al. 2003, Carpenter 1992, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1919, Handlirsch 1922, Kukalová 1969, Li et al. 2013, Liu et al. 2015, Martynov 1940, Prokop et al. 2015, Prokop et al. 2014, Pruvost 1919, Rohdendorf 1961, Sharov and Sinitshenkova 1977, Sinitshenkova 2004, Tillyard 1924 and Zalessky 1946
Sister taxa: Fouqueidae, Mecynostomatidae
Subtaxa: Abaptilon Baeoneura Becquerelia Bizarrea Boltoniella Delitzschala Dunbaria Epitethe Epithele Homaloneura Lamproptilia Lamproptilia stirrupi Mcluckiepteron Neuburgia Palaeoneuriinae Palaeoptilus Paradunbaria Permiakovia Saxonyptilus Sinodunbaria Spilaptera Spiloptilus Tectoptilus Tytthospilaptera Vorkutoneura
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Permian of the Russian Federation (16 collections), United States (4: Kansas, New Mexico)
• Carboniferous of China (1), France (2), Germany (7), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (7: Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania)
Total: 44 collections including 65 occurrences