Belongs within: Orthopteroidea.
The Caloneurodea are an extinct group of cursorial insects known from the Late Carboniferous and Permian (Grimaldi & Engel 2005).
Characters (from Grimaldi & Engel 2005): Antennae long, multisegmented; fore and hind wings with similar shape, venation and texture; wing veins strongly convex and concave, CuA and CuP unbranched and nearly parallel (occasionally fused) in both wing pairs; hind wing with anal area absent; tarsi five-segmented; cerci (where known) unsegmented.
<==Caloneurodea [Caloneurida]
| i. s.: Sypharoptera R02
| Protokollaria R02
| Sthenarocera R02
| Eohymen R02
| Tshecalculus R02
| Paoliola gourlei R02
| Geroneura wilsoni R02
| Pruvostiella R02
| Boltonaloneura Rasnitsyn 2002 R02
| `--*B. subtilis (Bolton 1925) [=Caloneura subtilis] R02
|--Pseudobiella [Permobiellidae] R02
|--Anomalogrammatidae R02
|--Amboneuridae R02
|--Plesiogrammatidae R02
|--Caloneura [Caloneuridae] R02
| `--*C. dawnsoni Brongniart 1885 BN02
|--Paleuthygramma [Paleuthygrammatidae] GE05
| |--P. acutum R02
| `--P. tenuicornis GE05
|--Euthygrammatidae [Gelastopteridae] R02
| |--Gelastopteron gracile R02
| `--Euthygramma parallelum Martynov 1938 BN02
`--Apsidoneuridae R02
|--Homaloptila similis (Meunier 1911) R02, BN02
`--Apsidoneura R02
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[BN02] Béthoux, O., & A. Nel. 2002. Venation pattern and revision of Orthoptera sensu nov. and sister groups. Phylogeny of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Orthoptera sensu nov. Zootaxa 96: 1-88.
[GE05] Grimaldi, D., & M. S. Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press: New York.
[R02] Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2002. Cohors Cimiciformes Laicharting, 1781. In History of Insects (A. P. Rasnitsyn & D. L. J. Quicke, eds) pp. 104-115. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht.
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