| Orthophlebiidae Temporal range:
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| Species of Orthophlebia and Mesopanorpa from the Middle Jurassic of China | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Mecoptera |
| Superfamily: | Panorpoidea |
| Family: | †Orthophlebiidae Handlirsch, 1906 |
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Orthophlebiidae is an extinct family of scorpionflies known from the Triassic to Cretaceous, belonging to the superfamily Panorpoidea. The family is poorly defined and is probably paraphyletic, representing many primitive members of Panorpoidea with most species only known from isolated wings, and has such been considered a wastebasket taxon.[1][2]
- ^ Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka; Krzemiński, Wiesław; Kopeć, Katarzyna; Cao, Yizi; Ren, Dong (March 2018). "Large Jurassic Scorpionflies Belonging to a New Subfamily of the Family Orthophlebiidae (Mecoptera)". Annales Zoologici. 68 (1): 85–92. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.1.004. ISSN 0003-4541. S2CID 90298406.
- ^ Soszyńska-Maj, Agnieszka; Krzemiński, Wiesław; Kopeć, Katarzyna; Coram, Robert A. (June 2016). "Worcestobiidae – a new Triassic family of Mecoptera, based on species removed from the family Orthophlebiidae". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 107 (2–3): 145–149. doi:10.1017/S1755691017000160. ISSN 1755-6910. S2CID 134871834.