''Baissoptera'' is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of an organism by the death of its Endling, last member. A taxon may become Functional extinction, functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to Reproduction, reproduce and ...
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
snakefly
Snakeflies are a group of predatory insects comprising the order Raphidioptera with two extant families: Raphidiidae and Inocelliidae, consisting of roughly 260 species. In the past, the group had a much wider distribution than it does now; snak ...
in the
Baissopteridae family which was described by Martynova in 1961. Since 1961, it has been described three times; Carpenter in 1992, Ponomarenko in 1988 and Engel in 2002. According to J. Jepson ''et al.'' in 2011, the parent taxon is
Baissopteridae.
Fossils of the species have been found in Brazil, China, Spain and Russia.
Species
''Baissoptera'' includes 14 species:
*†''Baissoptera bicolor''
Lyu, Ren & Liu, 2017
*†''Baissoptera brasiliensis''
Oswald, 1990
*†''Baissoptera cellulosa''
Ponomarenko, 1993
*†''Baissoptera cretaceoelectra''
Pérez-de la Fuente ''et al.'', 2012
*†''Baissoptera elongata''
Ponomarenko, 1993
*†''Baissoptera euneura''
Ren, 1997
*†''Baissoptera grandis''
Ren, 1995
*†''Baissoptera liaoningensis''
Ren, 1994
*†''Baissoptera lisae''
Jepson ''et al.'', 2011
*†''Baissoptera martinsoni''
Martynova, 1961
*†''Baissoptera minima''
Ponomarenko, 1993
*†''Baissoptera pulchra''
Martins-Neto & Nel, 1992
*†''Baissoptera sibirica''
Ponomarenko, 1993
*†''Baissoptera sinica''
Lyu, Ren & Liu, 2017
References
Raphidioptera
Cretaceous insects of Asia
Prehistoric insect genera
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