Protorthoptera

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Protorthoptera
Temporal range: 318–299 Ma Middle Carboniferous
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Cohort: Polyneoptera
Order: Protorthoptera
Handlirsch, 1906
Families

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Synonyms
  • Cacurgida
  • Paraplecoptera
  • Protoblattodea
  • Protoblattoidea

The Protorthoptera are an extinct order of Palaeozoic insects, and represent a wastebasket taxon and paraphyletic assemblage of basal neoptera[citation needed]. They appear during the Middle Carboniferous (late Serpukhovian or early Bashkirian), making them among the earliest known winged insects in the fossil record. may be expanded to form a shield. The group includes the ancestors of all other polyneopterous insects.

Families and genera[]

Protorthoptera[1]

  • Carpenter, 1938
    • Carpenter, 1938
  • Handlirsch, 1922
    • Lameere, 1917
  • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Scudder, 1885
    • Handlirsch, 1911
    • Handlirsch, 1911
    • Handlirsch, 1911
  • Handlirsch, 1911
    • Handlirsch, 1911
  • Handlirsch, 1911
    • Handlirsch, 1911
  • Bolton, 1925 (synonym Oryctoblattinidae Handlirsch, 1906)
    • Giebel, 1867
    • Richardson, 1956
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Meunier, 1912
  • Handlirsch, 1911
    • Scudder, 1885
  • Kukalova, 1965
    • Kukalova, 1965
  • Handlirsch, 1906 (synonym Teneopteridae)
    • Scudder, 1885
  • Handlirsch, 1906 (synonym Hadentomoidea Handlirsch, 1906)
    • Handlirsch, 1906
  • Handlirsch, 1906 (synonym Aenigmatodidae Handlirsch, 1906 & Hapalopteroidea Handlirsch, 1906)
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Handlirsch, 1906
  • Carpenter, 1977
    • Carpenter, 1977
  • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Brongniart, 1893
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Carpenter, 1992
    • Borre, 1875
    • Laurentiaux & Laurentiaux-Vieira, 1981
    • Handlirsch, 1904
    • Bolton, 1925
    • Brongniart, 1893
  • Carpenter, 1950
    • Carpenter, 1950
  • Martynov, 1938
    • Carpenter, 1966
    • Carpenter, 1966
    • Scudder, 1885
  • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Carpenter, 1992
  • Incertae sedis
    • Germar, 1842
    • Scudder, 1885
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Richardson, 1956
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Sellards, 1909
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Scudder, 1868
    • Lameere, 1917
    • Scudder, 1885
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Dana, 1864
    • Sellards, 1909
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Dana, 1864
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Bolton, 1921
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Handlirsch, 1906
    • Bolton, 1922
    • Handlirsch, 1911

References[]

  1. ^ order †Protorthoptera, Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 20 October 2021)
  • Carpenter, F. M. 1992. Superclass Hexapoda. Volume 3 of Part R, Arthropoda 4; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Boulder, Colorado, Geological Society of America.
  • Grimaldi, David & Engel, Michael S. (2005-05-16). Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82149-5.


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