Geraridae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Superordo: Archaeorthoptera

Familia: †Geraridae
Genera: Anepitedius – Axiologus – Cantabrala – Genentomum – Gerarulus – Gerarus – Nacekomia – Omalia – Osnogerarus – Platyphlebopteron – Progenentomum
Name

Geraridae Scudder, 1885
Synonyms

Sthenaropodidae Handlirsch, 1906 [synonymised by Burnham, 1983: 6 ('NEW SYNONYMY')]
Genopterygidae Richardson, 1956 [synonymised by Burnham, 1983: 6 ('NEW SYNONYMY')]

References

Béthoux, O.; Briggs, D.E.G. 2008: How Gerarus lost its head: stem-group Orthoptera and Paraneoptera revisited. Systematic entomology, 33: 529–547. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00419.x
Brauckmann, C.; Arillo, A.; Ortuño, V.M. 2001: A new Geraridae (Insecta, hemipteroid stem assemblage) from the Upper Carboniferous of La Magdalena (León, northern Spain). Boletín geológico y minero, 112(2): 57–61. ISSN: 0366-0176 PDF
Burnham, L. 1983: Studies on Upper Carboniferous insects: 1. The Geraridae (Order Protorthoptera). Psyche, 90: 1–57. DOI: 10.1155/1983/42898
Kukalová-Peck, J.; Brauckmann, C. 1992: Most Paleozoic Protorthoptera are ancestral hemipteroids: major wing braces as clues to a new phylogeny of Neoptera (Insecta). Canadian journal of zoology, 70: 2452–2473. DOI: 10.1139/z92-330