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Orthophlebia ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4682769	https://www.gbif.org/species/4682769
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	137008	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=137008

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Mecoptera : Orthophlebiidae : Orthophlebia

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Mecoptera : Orthophlebiidae : Orthophlebia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
-	Aparaglossata
-	Mecopterida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Mecoptera	Packard 1886
suborder	Pistillifera	Willmann 1987
infraorder	Opisthogonopora	Willmann 1987
-	Panorpomorpha
-	Panorpina	Willmann 1987
-	Panorpini	Willmann 1987
superfamily	Panorpoidea
family	Orthophlebiidae
genus	Orthophlebia	Westwood 1845

Scientific Name

Orthophlebia Westwood, 1845

Name Published In

in Brodie, Hist. Foss. Ins., 102

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Orthophlebia	genus	belongs to Orthophlebidae	stated with evidence	Handlirsch, 1906
Orthophlebia	genus	belongs to Panorpidae	stated with evidence	Enderlein, 1910
Orthophlebia	genus	belongs to Orthophlebidae	stated without evidence	Martynov, 1927
Orthophlebia	genus	belongs to Orthophlebidae	stated with evidence	Tillyard, 1933
Orthophlebia	genus	belongs to Orthophlebidae	stated without evidence	Ueda, 1991
Orthophlebia	genus	belongs to Orthophlebidae	stated with evidence	Zhang, 1996

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

242 - 235 Ma
Triassic

Last Recorded Appearance

125 - 113 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. O. Westwood. 1845. Taxonomic names. A History of the Fossil Insects in the Secondary Rocks of England Accompanied by a Particular Account of the Strata in which they Occur, and of the Circumstances Connected with their Preservation

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Orthophlebia (Dolichophlebia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		2	242 Ma Middle Triassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia (Mesopanorpa) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Orthophlebia (Orthophlebia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Orthophlebia (Parisophlebia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Jibeiorthophlebia xiafanzhangziensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Mesopanorpa luanpingensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebia (Dolichophlebia) diminuta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia aequalis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	191 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia anglica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orthophlebia angustata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	191 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia bella ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orthophlebia bifurcata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Orthophlebia bolboica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Orthophlebia brunsvicensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia brunsviensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebia capillata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia colorata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	197 Ma Early Jurassic	197 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia compacta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia confusa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orthophlebia curta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia deformis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia diminuta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebia effusa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia elenae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia elongata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia exculpta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia extensa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	201 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia fallerslebensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia fracta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Orthophlebia furcata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orthophlebia fuscipennis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia germanica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia gracilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orthophlebia gubini ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Orthophlebia heidemariae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia intermedia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orthophlebia jejuna ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia karabonica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Orthophlebia ladinica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebia laesa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orthophlebia latebrosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	197 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia latipennisimilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia lauta ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia liadis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia liaoningensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	125 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Orthophlebia liassica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		19	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia limnophila ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia lithographica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	151 Ma Late Jurassic	151 Ma Late Jurassic
Orthophlebia longicauda ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia luanpingensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia maculata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	201 Ma Early Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia mongolica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia nana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orthophlebia nervulosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia obscura species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebia obunca ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	170 Ma Middle Jurassic	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia parvula ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orthophlebia phryganoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia pictipennis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia pulchra ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia pygmaea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orthophlebia quadrimacula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	174 Ma Middle Jurassic	174 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia radialis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia retorrida ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia rossica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia rotundipennis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	191 Ma Early Jurassic	170 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebia shartegica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	152 Ma Late Jurassic	152 Ma Late Jurassic
Orthophlebia shurabica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	201 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia speciosa ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia stigmatica ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	209 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Orthophlebia unicolor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebia varia ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia venosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	191 Ma Early Jurassic	191 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia vernacula ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	201 Ma Early Jurassic	201 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia vicina ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia yangjuanxiangensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	183 Ma Early Jurassic	183 Ma Early Jurassic
Orthophlebia yaogouensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Orthophlebiites radialis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebioides anglicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebioides furcatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebioides fuscipennis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebioides limnophilus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebioides parvulus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Orthophlebioides stigmaticus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Panorpa liassica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protorthophlebia deformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protorthophlebia yangjuanxiangensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Protorthophlebia yaogouensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Synorthophlebia liadis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Synorthophlebia speciosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Synorthophlebia vicina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1845	Orthophlebia Westwood p. 102
1906	Orthophlebia Handlirsch p. 480
1906	Orthophlebioides Handlirsch p. 481
1906	Callopanorpa Handlirsch p. 615
1910	Orthophlebia Enderlein p. 395
1927	Orthophlebia Martynov p. 651
1933	Orthophlebia Tillyard p. 30
1937	Orthophlebia Martynov p. 12
1939	Orthophlebiites Handlirsch p. 83
1939	Synorthophlebia Handlirsch p. 84
1948	Orthophlebia Martynova p. 48

Year	Name and Author
1953	Orthophlebia Bode
1953	Synorthophlebia Bode
1978	Orthophlebia Willmann p. 69
1982	Orthophlebia Lin p. 81
1985	Orthophlebia Whalley
1991	Orthophlebia Ueda p. 100
1992	Orthophlebia Carpenter
1996	Orthophlebia Ansorge p. 68
1996	Orthophlebia Zhang p. 446
1997	Orthophlebia Ren p. 82
2018	Orthophlebia Kope? et al. p. 164

References

Westwood J. O. Taxonomic names, A History of the Fossil Insects in the Secondary Rocks of England Accompanied by a Particular Account of the Strata in which they Occur, and of the Circumstances Connected with their Preservation, 1-130

Handlirsch A. (1906) Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV, Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen, 1-640

Martynov A. V. (1927) Jurassic Fossil Mecoptera and Paratrichoptera from Turkestan and Ust-Balei (Siberia), Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR 21 7-8, 651-666

Tillyard R. J. (1933) The Panorpoid complex in the British Rhaetic and Lias, Fossil Insects, British Museum Natural History 3, 1-79

Martynov A. V. (1937) Liassic insects from Shurab and Kisyl-Kiya, Part I, Various orders except Blattodea and Coleoptera, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 7, 1-178

Handlirsch A. (1939) Neue Untersuchungen über die fossilen Insekten mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen sowie Ausblicken auf phylogenetische, palaeogeographische und allgemein biologische Probleme. II Teil, Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 49, 1-240

Martynova O. M. (1948) Materialy po evolyutsii Mecoptera, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 14, 1-76

Bode A. (1953) Die Insektenfauna des Ostniedersachsischen Oberen Lias, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 103, 1-375

Willmann R. (1978) Mecoptera (Insecta, Holometabola), Fossilum Catalogus, Animalia 124, 1-139

Lin Q. B. (1982) Insecta, Palaeontological Atlas of Northwest China: Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia Volume 3, 70-83

Whalley P. E. S. (1985) The systematics and palaeogeography of the Lower Jurassic insects of Dorset, England, Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 39 3, 107-189

Ueda K. (1991) A Triassic fossil of scorpion fly from Mine, Japan, Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 10, 99-103

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

Ansorge J. (1996) Insekten aus dem oberen Lias von Grimmen (Vorpommern, Norddeutschland), Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen 2, 1-132

Zhang H. C. (1996) Mesozoic Insects of Orthophlebiidae (Insecta, Mecoptera) from Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China, Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 35 4, 442-456

Ren D. (1997) Studies on Late Jurassic scorpion-flies from northeast China (Mecoptera: Bittacidae, Orthophlebiidae), Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 22, 75-85

Kopeć K., Soszyńska-Maj A., et al (2018) Mecoptera and Diptera from the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) deposits of Wolfsburg – Große Kley (Lower Saxony, Germany), Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107, 163-171

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NZ cross ref or inferred from publ. title - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus (authority adjusted) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

in Brodie, Hist. Foss. Ins., 102 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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