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Archeosmylidae

Insecta - Neuroptera - Archeosmylidae

Taxonomy
Archeosmylidae was named by Riek (1953). Its type is Archeosmylus.

It was synonymized subjectively with Permithonidae by Whalley (1988).

It was assigned to Planipennia by Riek (1955) and Carpenter (1992); to Neuroptera by Riek (1953) and Makarkin et al. (2014); and to Osmyloidea by Winterton et al. (2019).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Archeosmylidae Riek p. 85
1955Archeosmylidae Riek p. 676
1992Archeosmylidae Carpenter
2014Archeosmylidae Makarkin et al. p. 212
2019Archeosmylidae Winterton et al. p. 11

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
Metaxyneuroptera
Eidoneuroptera
orderNeuroptera
Euneuroptera
superfamilyOsmyloideaLeach 1815
familyArcheosmylidae
familyArcheosmylidae

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.

Fm. †Archeosmylidae Riek 1953
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G. †Archeosmylus Riek 1953
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Archeosmylus costalis Riek 1955
G. †Babykamenia Ponomarenko and Shcherbakov 2004
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Babykamenia eskovi Ponomarenko and Shcherbakov 2004
G. †Lithosmylidia Riek 1955
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Lithosmylidia baronne Lambkin 1988
Lithosmylidia lineata Riek 1955
Lithosmylidia parvula Riek 1955
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: base of the Changhsingian to the top of the Norian or 254.17000 to 208.50000 Ma

Collections (8 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Changhsingian254.17 - 252.17South Africa (Kwazulu-Natal) Archeosmylus sp. (14361)
Changhsingian254.17 - 252.17South Africa (Natal) Archeosmylidae indet. (124428)
Changhsingian254.17 - 252.17Australia (New South Wales) Archeosmylus pectinatus (122433)
Griesbachian251.902 - 250.5Russian Federation (Kemerovo) Babykamenia eskovi (104713)
Anisian247.2 - 242.0Australia (Queensland) Lithosmylidia baronne (154203)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Australia (Queensland) Archeosmylus sp. (111558) Lithosmylidia parvula (154204) Lithosmylidia sp. A, Archeosmylus stigmatus, Archeosmylus costalis, Lithosmylidia lineata, Lithosmylidia parvula (106484)