Insecta - Mecoptera - Orthophlebiidae
Alternative spellings: Orthophlebidae, Orthophlebiinae
Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640
Parent taxon: Panorpoidea according to A. Soszyńska-Maj et al. 2019
See also Bode 1953, Carpenter 1992, Handlirsch 1906, Krzemiński et al. 2015, Martynov 1927, Martynov 1937, Riek 1950, Riek 1955, Sukatsheva 1985, Tillyard 1933, Whalley 1985, Willmann 1978, Willmann 1987 and Zhang 1996
Sister taxa: Australochoristidae, Austropanorpidae, Cantabridae, Dinopanorpidae, Eorpidae, Muchoriidae, Panorpidae, Panorpodidae, Protorthophlebiidae
Subtaxa: Burmorthophlebia Choristopanorpa Cretacochorista Gigaphlebiinae Juraphlebia Mesopanorpa Mesorthophlebia Orthophlebiinae Parachorista Parorthophlebia Stenopanorpa
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Australia (1 collection), China (5), Myanmar (2), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Jurassic of China (20), Germany (12), Kazakhstan (15), Kyrgyzstan (7), Mongolia (5), the Russian Federation (13), the United Kingdom (8)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (3)
• Triassic of Australia (2), China (1), Kyrgyzstan (5), the United Kingdom (11)
Total: 118 collections including 204 occurrences