Ampelipteridae

Reconstruction of Tshekardobia osmylina, from here (based on a reconstruction by A. G. Ponomarenko).

Belongs within: Orthopteroidea.

The Ampelipteridae is a group of insects that has been recognised from the Middle Carboniferous to the Early Permian of Eurasia and North America, united by the presence of a branched CuP (Rasnitsyn 2002). Rasnitsyn (2002) classified the Ampelipteridae as basal members of the Paraneoptera in the Hypoperlida, but Béthoux & Nel (2002) regarded at least some ampelipterids as Polyneoptera.

<==Ampelipteridae [Aenigmatodidae, Anthraconeuridae, Fatjanopteridae, Mixotermitidae, Protoprosbolidae] R02
    |--Ampeliptera limburgica Pruvost 1927 BN02
    |--Protoprosbole R02
    |--Fatjanoptera mnemonica R02
    |--Tshunicola R02
    |--Tshekardobia osmylina R02
    |--Limburgina antiqua Laurentiaux 1950 R02, BN02 [=L. antigua (l. c.) BN02]
    |--Aenigmatodes R02
    |--Anthraconeura sylvatica Laurentiaux & Laurentiaux-Vieira 1980 R02, BN02
    |--Mixotermes R02
    |--Pruvostia R02
    `--Boltonocosta 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.

[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.