Alternative spelling: Spilapteridea
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: Palaeodictyoptera according to X. Liu et al. 2015
See also Li et al. 2013, Prokop et al. 2014 and Rohdendorf 1961
Sister taxa: Achaeoptilus, Aenigmatopsis, Althansia, Anagesthes, Anthracosta, Asiodictya, Bathytaptus, Bojoptera, Breyerioidea, Brongniartites, Brongniartula, Commentryites, Compsoneura, Delafondia, Dictyoneurina, Diexodus, Elmoboriidae, Eubleptidae, Eugereonoidea, Eumecoptera, Eurydictyella, Eurythmopteryx, Frankenholziina, Gegenemene, Haplophlebium, Heolidae, Heolus, Homoiopteridae, Homothetidae, Idoptilus, Kansasia, Kansasiidae, Mammia, Mecynoptera, Mecynopteridae, Mecynostomites, Megaptilidae, Mongolianidae, Monsteropterum, Neopalaeodictyoptera, Neosecoptera, Palaeodictyoptera amissa, Palaeodictyoptera macrophlebia, Palaiotaptus, Palapteris, Paraboltonia, Paramecynostoma, Paramegaptilus, Platephemera, Propalingenia, Pseudomecynostoma, Psychroptilidae, Pteronidia, Pteronidiidae, Pyebrodia, Rochdalia, Saarlandia, Saarlandiidae, Sabitaptus, Schedoneura, Severinopsis, Spilaptera sutcliffei, Spilapterites, Straeleniellidae, Synaptoneura, Titanophasma, Turnbullia, Eukulojidae
Subtaxa: Fouqueidae Mecynostomatidae Spilapteridae
Type: Spilaptera
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Permian of the Russian Federation (16 collections), United States (4: Kansas, New Mexico)
• Carboniferous of China (1), France (3), Germany (7), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (8: Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania)
Total: 46 collections including 73 occurrences