Protelytroptera

secundum Carpenter, 1992

Familiae (11): †Apachelytridae – †Archelytridae – †Dermelytridae – †Elytroneuridae – †Labidelytridae – †Megelytridae – †Permelytridae – †Permophilidae – †Planelytridae – †Protelytridae – †Protocoleidae
Protelytroptera incertae sedis: †Arctocoleus – †Crasselytron – †Glabelytron – †Protelytropsis – †Rugelytron – †Venelytron

secundum Shcherbakov, 2002

Superfamiliae: †Archelytroidea – †Protelytroidea
Familiae: †Archelytridae – †Bardocoleidae – †Blattelytridae – ?†Dermelytridae – †Elytroneuridae – †Permofulgoridae – †Planelytridae – †Protelytridae

Synonyms

• Protocoleoptera Tillyard, 1924: 434 [syn.: Kukalová, 1966: 90]
  • Note: also used as a suborder of Coleoptera; see Alphacoleoptera
• Paracoleoptera Laurentiaux, 1953: 475 [syn.: Kukalová, 1966: 90]

Primary references

• Kukalová, J. 1966. Protelytroptera From the Upper Permian of Australia, With a Discussion of the Protocoleoptera and Paracoleoptera. Psyche 73(2): 89–111. DOI: 10.1155/1966/93549 . BHL.
• Tillyard, R.J. 1924. Upper Permian Coleoptera and a new order from the Belmont Beds, New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 429–435. BHL.
• Tillyard, R.J. 1931. Kansas Permian Insects. Part 13. The new order Protelytroptera, with a discussion of relationships. American Journal of Science (series 5) 21(123): 232–266. DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s5-21.123.232 .

Additional references

• Beutel, R.G., Yan, E.V. & Kukalová-Peck, J. 2019. Is †Skleroptera (†Stephanastus) an order in the stemgroup of Coleopterida (Insecta)? Insect Systematics & Evolution 50(5): 670–678. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002187 . Reference page.  [suggests placement of Skleroptera (= Stephanastus) in Protelytroptera]
• Carpenter, F.M. 1933. The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 6: Delopteridae, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and a New Collection of Protodonata, Odonata, Megasecoptera, Homoptera and Psocoptera. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 68(11): 411–505. JSTOR .
• Carpenter, F.M. 1939. The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 8: Additional Megasecoptera, Protodonata, Odonata, Homoptera, Psocoptera, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera, and Protoperlaria. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 73(3): 29–70. JSTOR .
• Carpenter, F.M. 1992. Superclass Hexapoda. In: Kaesler, R.L. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part R, Arthropoda 4, Volumes 3 and 4. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. xxi + 655 pp. ISBN 0-8137-3019-8. DOI: 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5370 . Reference page. 
• Carpenter, F.M. & Kukalová, J. 1965 ("1964"). The Structure of the Protelytroptera, With Description of a New Genus From Permian Strata of Moravi. Psyche 71(4): 183–197. DOI: 10.1155/1964/41528 . BHL.
• Jell, P.A. 2004. The fossil insects of Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 50(1): 1–124. BHL. Reference page. 
• Kukalová, J. 1965. Permian Protelytroptera, Coleoptera and Protorthoptera (Insecta) of Moravia. Sborník Geologických věd, Paleontologie 6: 61–95. [not seen]
• Kukalová-Peck, J. 1988 ("1987"). A Substitute Name for the Extinct Genus Stenelytron Kukalová (Protelytroptera). Psyche 94(3–4): 339. DOI: 10.1155/1987/17543 . BHL.
• Shcherbakov, D.E. 2002. 2.2.2.2.3. Order Forficulida Latreille, 1810. The earwigs and protelytropterans (=Dermaptera DeGeer, 1773 +Protelytroptera Tillyard, 1931). Pp. 288–291. In: Rasnitsyn, A.P. & Quicke, D.L.J. (eds.) History of Insects. Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 1-4020-0026-X (print), ISBN 0-306-47577-4 (e-book). DOI: 10.1007/0-306-47577-4 . ResearchGate . Reference page.  [treated as suborder Protelytrina of order Forficulida]