Belongs within: Paraneoptera.
The Strephocladina are a group of insects known from the Middle Carboniferous to Late Permian. They may have been specialised for feeding on plant seeds and ovules.
Characters (from Rasnitsyn 2002): Body relatively large and heavy; head long; wings often polyneurous, rest position either roof-like or horizontal.
<==Strephocladina
|--Synomaloptila [Synomaloptilidae] R02
| `--S. longipennis R02
`--+--Hypermegethes [Hypermegethidae] R02
|--Permarrhaphidae [Strephoneuridae] R02
| |--Strephoneura robusta R02
| |--Pseudoedischia berthaudi R02
| `--Permarrhaphus venosus R02
`--Anthracoptilidae [Strephocladidae] R02
|--Mycteroptila armipotens R02
|--Strephocladus subtilis R02
|--Anthracoptilus perrieri R02
|--Ischnoneurona Handlirsch 1919 R02, BN05
| `--*I. delicatula (Brongniart 1893) [=Ischnoneura delicatula] BN05
`--Mesoptilus R02
|--M. dolloi R02
|--M. fayolianus R02
`--M. sellardsi R02
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[BN05] BĂ©thoux, O., & A. Nel. 2005. Some Palaeozoic ‘Protorthoptera’ are ‘ancestral’ orthopteroids: Major wing braces as clues to a new split among the ‘Protorthoptera’ (Insecta). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2 (4): 285-309.
[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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