Full reference: R. J. Tillyard. 1919. A fossil insect wing belonging to the new order Paramecoptera, ancestral to the Trichoptera and Lepidoptera from the Upper Coal-Measures of Newcastle, NSW. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 44:231-256
Parent taxon: Mecoptera according to E. F. Riek 1953
Sister taxa: Anemeca, Aneuretopsychidae, Anormochoristidae, Cyclopterinidae, Dinopanorpidae, Eobanksiidae, Eumecoptera, Holcorpidae, Liassopanorpa, Lithopanorpidae, Mecaenigma, Mendozachoristidae, Nannomecoptera, Nedubroviidae, Paratrichoptera, Permocentropidae, Pistillifera, Protodiptera, Protomecoptera, Protomeropidae, Pseudopolycentropodidae, Reprehensa, Stereochoristidae, Thaumatomeropidae, Tipulidites
Subtaxa: Belmontiidae, Parabelmontiidae
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