Palaeoptera

Ephemera danica (Ephemeroptera)

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Division: Palaeoptera
Cladi: Odonatoptera – Panephemeroptera – †Palaeodictyopteroidea
incertae sedis: †Gallolithoneura

Name

Palaeoptera Martynov, 1923

References

Primary references

• Martynov, A.V. 1923. О двух основных типах крыльев насекомых и их значении для общей классификаци насекомых [On the two main types of insect wings and their significance for the general classification of insects]. Proceedings of the I All-Russian Congress of Zoologists, Anatomists and Histologists in Petrograd on 15-21 December 1922: 88–89. Reference page. 

Primary references

• Sroka, P., Staniczek, A.H. & Bechly, G. 2014. Revision of the giant pterygote insect Bojophlebia prokopi Kukalová-Peck, 1985 (Hydropalaeoptera: Bojophlebiidae) from the Carboniferous of the Czech Republic, with the first cladistic analysis of fossil palaeopterous insects. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13(11): 963–982. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2014.987958 . Reference page. 

Links

• Palaeoptera - insecta.bio.spbu.ru

Vernacular names

English: ancient winged insects
français: Paléoptères