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Pseudonymphinae

Insecta - Neuroptera - Myrmeleontidae

Taxonomy

Pseudonymphinae was named by Martins-Neto (1992). Its type is Pseudonymphes.

It was reranked as the family Pseudonymphidae by Makarkin et al. (2018).

It was assigned to Myrmeleontoidae by Makarkin et al. (2018); and to Myrmeleontidae by Martins-Neto (1992), Martins-Neto (1997), Martins-Neto (1998), Martins-Neto (2002), Lu and Liu (2022), Bueno et al. (2025).

Subtaxa

Bleyeria, Blittersdorffia, Pseudonymphes (type genus)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1992	Pseudonymphinae Martins-Neto p. 134
1997	Pseudonymphinae Martins-Neto p. 75
1998	Pseudonymphinae Martins-Neto p. 39
2002	Pseudonymphinae Martins-Neto p. 37
2018	Pseudonymphidae Makarkin et al. p. 602
2022	Pseudonymphinae Lu and Liu p. 2
2025	Pseudonymphinae Bueno et al. p. 3

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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	Myrmeleontidae	()
subfamily	Pseudonymphinae
subfamily	Pseudonymphinae

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. †Pseudonymphinae Martins-Neto 1992

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G. †Bleyeria Martins-Neto 1992

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†Bleyeria nordestina Martins-Neto 1992

G. †Blittersdorffia Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989

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†Blittersdorffia dicotomica Martins-Neto 1990

†Blittersdorffia evanescens Bueno et al. 2025

†Blittersdorffia pleoneura Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989

†Blittersdorffia polyplusia Martins-Neto 1997

†Blittersdorffia volkheimeri Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989

G. †Pseudonymphes Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989

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†Pseudonymphes araripensis Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989

†Pseudonymphes brunherottae Martins-Neto 1994

†Pseudonymphes ponomarenkoi Martins-Neto 1992

†Pseudonymphes zambonii Martins-Neto 1998

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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Late/Upper Aptian or 119.57000 to 113.20000 Ma

Collections (12 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian	119.57 - 113.2	Brazil (Ceará)	Blittersdorffia dicotomica, Pseudonymphes araripensis, Pseudonymphes ponomarenkoi (125511) Blittersdorffia evanescens (217013) Blittersdorffia pleoneura (123013) Blittersdorffia pleoneura, Bleyeria nordestina (105330) Blittersdorffia pleoneura, Pseudonymphes ponomarenkoi, Blittersdorffia polyplusia (122352) Blittersdorffia polyplusia (181590) Blittersdorffia volkheimeri (149767) Pseudonymphes araripensis (186591 186592) Pseudonymphes araripensis, Pseudonymphes zambonii (125510) Pseudonymphes brunherottae (122557 123014)