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Araripeneurinae

Insecta - Neuroptera - Myrmeleontidae

Taxonomy

Araripeneurinae was named by Martins-Neto and Vulcano (1989). Its type is Araripeneura.

It was reranked as the family Araripeneuridae by Martins-Neto (2002), Martins-Neto (2010), Makarkin et al. (2018).

It was assigned to Myrmeleontoidea by Martins-Neto (2002); to Grammolingiidae by Engel and Grimaldi (2008); to Neuroptera by Martins-Neto (2010); to Myrmeleontoidae by Makarkin et al. (2018); and to Myrmeleontidae by Martins-Neto and Vulcano (1989), Martins-Neto and Vulcano (1989), Martins-Neto (1992), Martins-Neto (1992), Martins-Neto (1997), Martins-Neto and Vulcano (1997), Huang et al. (2016), Lu et al. (2019), Lu and Liu (2022), Bueno et al. (2026).

Subtaxa

Caririneura, Cratopteryx, Paracaririneura

Synonyms

Cratoalloneurini was named by Martins-Neto (2002).

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Araripeneuridae by Makarkin et al. (2018).

It was assigned to Araripeneurinae by Martins-Neto (2002); and to Araripeneurinae by Martins-Neto (2005).
Cratopteryxinae was named by Martins-Neto (2010).

It was considered an invalid subgroup of Araripeneuridae by Makarkin et al. (2018).

It was assigned to Araripeneuridae by Martins-Neto (2010).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1989	Araripeneurinae Martins-Neto and Vulcano p. 314
1992	Araripeneurinae Martins-Neto p. 123
1997	Araripeneurinae Martins-Neto p. 72
1997	Araripeneurinae Martins-Neto and Vulcano p. 65
2002	Araripeneuridae Martins-Neto p. 38
2002	Cratoalloneurini Martins-Neto p. 55
2005	Cratoalloneurini Martins-Neto p. 8
2008	Araripeneurinae Engel and Grimaldi
2010	Araripeneuridae Martins-Neto
2010	Cratopteryxinae Martins-Neto p. 4
2016	Araripeneurinae Huang et al. p. 3
2018	Araripeneuridae Makarkin et al. p. 602
2019	Araripeneurinae Lu et al.
2022	Araripeneurinae Lu and Liu p. 2
2026	Araripeneurinae Bueno et al. p. 3

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Neuropteriformia
superorder	Neuropterida
—	Metaxyneuroptera
—	Eidoneuroptera
order	Neuroptera
—	Euneuroptera
—	Neoneuroptera
—	Geoneuroptera
suborder	Myrmeleontiformia	Henry 1982
superfamily	Myrmeleontoidea
family	Myrmeleontidae	()
subfamily	Araripeneurinae
subfamily	Araripeneurinae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subfm. †Araripeneurinae Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989

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G. †Caririneura Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989

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†Caririneura macrothoracica Makarkin et al. 2018

†Caririneura microcephala Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989

G. †Cratopteryx Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989

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†Cratopteryx nemopteroides Martins-Neto 2002

†Cratopteryx robertosantosi Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1989

G. †Paracaririneura Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1997

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†Paracaririneura priscila Martins-Neto and Vulcano 1997

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Late/Upper Aptian or 119.57000 to 113.20000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian	119.57 - 113.2	Brazil (Ceará)	Caririneura macrothoracica (186591) Caririneura microcephala, Cratopteryx robertosantosi, Paracaririneura priscila (125511) Cratopteryx nemopteroides (181590 217013)