Lophioneuroptera Engel, Montagna, Boderau, P. Nel, & A. Nel nov.

3.2. Clade Lophioneuroptera Engel, Montagna, Boderau, P. Nel, & A. Nel nov.

(= “ Lophioneurida Tillyard, 1921 ” sensu auctorum)

Remarks.

We reject the name “ Lophioneurida ” as applied to this clade on the grounds that it and other names like it above the family group, represent an attempt to impose a rogue nomenclatural system by way of changes to the Principle of Coordination relative to the ICZN family-group series. In brief, there is no such thing as “ Lophioneurida Tillyard, 1921 ” as names above the family group are not coordinate with the family-group series of names. Tillyard (1921) established a family-group name, Lophioneuridae , based on the type genus Lophioneura Tillyard, 1921 and therefore his name is coordinate throughout the ICZN-regulated family group (ICZN 1999), but not further through names outside of the family group. Efforts to either typify and / or make names above the level of the family group coordinate with those of families (e. g., Rohdendorf 1977; Rasnitsyn 1982) have never been adopted nor sanctioned by the ICZN (1999). Accordingly, such efforts to make them part of the natural coordination and typification of family-group names are operating outside of the bounds of the ICZN (1999). We therefore reject the use of “ Lophioneurida ” and other rogue attempts to circumvent the ICZN and force typified coordination of family-group names with those clearly outside of the ICZN-regulated system of names. The same problem applies to the family-group name Thripidae Fallén, 1814 as extended to a superorder as “ Thripida ”.

Diagnosis.

Forewing with CuA re-emerging orthogonally from R + M + CuA.

Included families.

Lophioneuridae Tillyard, 1921 (spectral thrips) and Iotacyphidae Shcherbakov, Bashkuev, & Shmakov, 2024 (shielded thrips).