Insecta - Neuroptera - Myrmeleontoidae

Full reference: R. G. Martins-Neto. 1992. Neurópteros (Insecta, Planipennia) da Formação Santana (Cretáceo Inferior), Bacia do Araripe, nordeste do Brasil. VII - Palaeoleontinae, nova subfamília de Myrmeleontidae e descrição de novos táxons. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 36:803-815

Belongs to Cratoneura according to V. N. Makarkin et al. 2018

See also Martins-Neto 1992, Martins-Neto 1997, Martins-Neto 2000 and Martins-Neto 2002

Sister taxa: Cratoneura cuneata, Cratoneura dividens, Cratoneura longissima, Cratoneura minor

Type specimen: UnG/1T-05, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Crato, Tatajuba farm, Araripe Basin, which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large limestone in the Crato Formation of Brazil.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Crato, Tatajuba farm, Araripe Basin

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