Baissoptera is an extinctgenus of snakefly 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
↑O. M. Martynova (1961). "Sovremennye i vymershie verblyudki (Insecta, Raphidioptera)" [Recent and extinct snakeflies (Insecta, Raphidioptera)]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 1961 (3): 73–83.
12Ya-nan Lyu; Dong Ren; Xingyue Liu (2017). "Systematic revision of the fossil snakefly family Baissopteridae (Insecta: Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of China, with description of a new genus and three new species". Cretaceous Research. 80: 13–26. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.08.004.