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Archaeolepiidae

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Archaeolepiidae

Taxonomy
Archaeolepidae was named by Whalley (1985). It is not extant.

It was corrected as Archaeolepiidae by Sohn et al. (2012).

It was assigned to Lepidoptera by Whalley (1985), van Nieukerken et al. (2011) and Sohn et al. (2012).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1985Archaeolepidae Whalley
2011Archaeolepidae van Nieukerken et al. p. 212
2012Archaeolepiidae Sohn et al. p. 13

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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
Panorpida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
Metamphiesmenoptera
Euamphiesmenoptera
Panendymenoptera
Endymenoptera
Stelloptera
orderLepidoptera
familyArchaeolepiidae()
familyArchaeolepiidae()

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. †Archaeolepiidae Whalley 1985
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G. †Archaeolepis Whalley 1985
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Archaeolepis mane Whalley 1985
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available