Megaraphidia Cockerell 1907 (snakefly)

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Raphidiidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1907. Some fossil arthropods from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23:605-616

Parent taxon: Raphidiidae according to S. B. Archibald and V. N. Makarkin 2021

See also Carpenter 1936, Cockerell 1907, Engel 2002 and Makarkin and Archibald 2014

Sister taxa: Archiinocellia, Archiraphidia, Florissantoraphidia, Macrostigmoraphia, Ohmella, Raphidia, Raphidiinae, Succinoraphidiinae

Subtaxa: Megaraphidia antiquissima Megaraphidia elegans Megaraphidia exhumata Megaraphidia hopkinsi Megaraphidia klondika Megaraphidia ootsa

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Canada (3: British Columbia collections), United States (5: Colorado, Washington)

Total: 8 collections including 9 occurrences

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