Tupinae

Arctotypus intermedius, paratype

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: †Meganeuromorpha

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Superordo: Odonatoptera Cladus: Palaeodonatoptera Cladus: Plesiodonatoptera Cladus: Apodonatoptera Cladus: Paneodonatoptera Cladus: Neodonatoptera Cladus: Euodonatoptera Ordo: †Meganisoptera Subordo: †Meganeuromorpha

Familia: †Meganeuridae
Subfamilia: †Tupinae
Genera: †Arctotypus – †Bohemiatupus – †Curvitupus – †Gallotupus – †Gilsonia – †Meganeurites – †Megatypus – †Nannotupus – †Permotupus – †Stephanotypus – †Tupus

Dubious position: †Boltonites – †Meganeurina – †Petrotypus – †Schlechtendaliola – †Shenzhousia

Name

Tupinae Handlirsch, 1919

Type genus: Tupus Sellards, 1906.

Synonymy

• Typidae Handlirsch, 1919: 572
  • placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Family-Group Names in Zoology by Opinion 1317 (ICZN, 1985).
• Tupinae: Whalley, 1980: 285
• Stephanotypinae Zessin, 2006: 41
  • Type genus: Stephanotypus Zessin, 1983.

References

Primary references

• Handlirsch, A. 1919. Revision der Paläozoischen Insekten. Denkschriften der Akademie Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 96: 511–592. BHL.
• ICZN 1985. Opinion 1317. Tupus Sellards, 1906 (Insecta, Protodonata): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 42(2): 169–170. BHL. Reference page. 
• Whalley, P.E.S. 1980. Tupus diluculum sp. nov. (Protodonata), a gigant dragonfly from the Upper Carboniferous of Britain. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Geology 34(4): 285–287. BHL.
• Zessin, W. 2006. Zwei neue Insektenreste (Megasecoptera, Odonatoptera) aus dem Westfalium D (Oberkarbon) des Piesberges bei Osnabrück, Deutschland. Virgo, Mitteilungsblatt des Entomologischen Vereins Mecklenburg 9(1): 37–45. PDF.

Additional references

• Brauckmann, C. & Zessin, W. 1989. Neue Meganeuridae aus dem Namurium von Hagen-Vorhalle (BRD) und die Phylogenie der Meganisoptera (Insecta, Odonata). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift (N.F.) 36(1–3): 177–215. DOI: 10.1002/mmnd.19890360127 . Reference page. 
• Nel, A., Fleck, G., Garrouste, R., Gand, G., Lapeyrie, J., Bybee, S.M. & Prokop, J. 2009. Revision of Permo-Carboniferous griffenflies (Insecta: Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera) based upon new species and redescription of selected poorly known taxa from Eurasia. Palaeontographica (A) 289: 89–121. DOI: 10.1127/pala/289/2009/89 . Reference page. 
• Nel, A., Prokop, J., Pecharová, M., Engel, M.S. & Garrouste, R. 2018. Palaeozoic giant dragonflies were hawker predators. Scientific Reports 8: 12141. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-30629-w . Reference page.  [Supplementary Material]
• Prokop, J. & Nel, A. 2010. New griffenfly, Bohemiatupus elegans from the Late Carboniferous of western Bohemia in the Czech Republic (Odonatoptera: Meganisoptera: Meganeuridae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (n.s.) 46(1–2): 183–188. DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2010.10697655 . Reference page.