Extinct family of insects
Archescytinidae
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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Class:
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Insecta
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Order:
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Thysanoptera
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Family:
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Archescytinidae Tillyard, 1926
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Type genus
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†Archescytina
Tillyard, 1926
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Genera[2]
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- †Archescytina Tillyard, 1926 (type genus)
- †Arroyoscyta Rasnitsyn, 2004
- †Austroscytina Evans, 1944
- †Bekkerscytina Evans, 1958
- †Eoscytina Evans, 1958
- †Kaltanaphis Becker-Midgisova, 1959
- †Kaltanoscytina Becker-Midgisova, 1959
- †Lepidoscytina Wang, 1980
- †Lithoscytina Carpenter, 1933
- †Maripsocus Zalessky, 1939
- †Paleoscytina Carpenter, 1933
- †Parapermopsylla Zimmerman, 1962
- †Permocephalus Evans, 1943
- †Permopsylla Tillyard, 1926
- †Permopsyllopsis Zalessky, 1939
- †Permothrips Martynov, 1935
- †Protopincombea Evans, 1943
- †Sarbaloscytina Becker-Midgisova, 1959
- †Sojanoscytina Martynov, 1933
- †Tsekardaella Becker-Midgisova, 1960
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Archescytinidae is an extinct family of fungus-feeding thrips belonging to the order Thysanoptera that was first defined by Robert John Tillyard in 1926.[3][2] They are the oldest known thrips family and they existed between the Asselian epoch of the Early Permian and the Toarcian epoch of the Early Jurassic.[1]