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Nemopterinae

Insecta - Neuroptera - Nemopteridae

Taxonomy

Nemopterinae was named by Burmeister (1839). It is extant.

It was assigned to Nemopteridae by Pierce and Kirkby (1959), Nel (1991), Ábrahám (2014), Claisse et al. (2019), Nel and Jarzembowski (2019), Lu et al. (2019).

Subtaxa

Halter, Lertha (syn. Olivierina, Kirbynia), Marquettia, Stenonemiini

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1839	Nemopterinae Burmeister
1959	Nemopterinae Pierce and Kirkby p. 49
1991	Nemopterinae Nel p. 335
2014	Nemopterinae Ábrahám
2019	Nemopterinae Claisse et al. p. 116
2019	Nemopterinae Lu et al. p. 263
2019	Nemopterinae Nel and Jarzembowski p. 397

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
superorder	Neuropterida
—	Metaxyneuroptera
—	Eidoneuroptera
order	Neuroptera
—	Euneuroptera
—	Neoneuroptera
—	Geoneuroptera
suborder	Myrmeleontiformia	Henry 1982
superfamily	Myrmeleontoidea
family	Nemopteridae	()
subfamily	Nemopterinae
subfamily	Nemopterinae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subfm. Nemopterinae Burmeister 1839

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G. Halter Rambur 1842

G. Lertha Navás 1910

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Invalid names: Kirbynia Navás 1910 [synonym], Olivierina Navás 1910 [synonym]

G. †Marquettia Navás 1913

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†Marquettia americana Cockerell 1907

†Marquettia metzeli Pierce and Kirkby 1959

Tr. Stenonemiini Orfila 1955

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G. †Paleonemia Claisse et al. 2019

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†Paleonemia balmeae Claisse et al. 2019

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Whitneyan or 37.00000 to 29.50000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	United Kingdom (England)	Stenonemiini indet. (127743)
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	Halter americana (106380) Marquettia americana (127617)
MP 23	33.9 - 27.3	France	Paleonemia balmeae (157327)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	France	Stenonemiini indet. (146907)
Whitneyan	31.8 - 29.5	USA (Montana)	Olivierina metzeli (152195)