NOMEN: Euneuropteroidea Krausse & Wolff 1919 [A. Krausse, M. Wolff. Eine Uebersicht über die bisher aufgestellten fossilen und rezenten Insecte – Arch. Naturg. (A), 1919, 85 (3): 151-171]
ORIGINAL LISTED
MEMBERSHIP (Krausse &
Wolff 1919):
Myrmeleonida + Ascalaphida +
Nemopteridida
(misprint "Neuropteridida") + Sisyrida +
Osmylida +
†Kalligrammida + †Nymphitida + †Mesochrysopida + †Prohemerobiida +
†Solenoptilida +
Dilarida +
Polystoechotidida +
Nymphesida +
Hemerobiida +
Chrysopida +
Mantispida +
Coniopterygida 
NON-MONOSEMANTIC
CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS (with undetermined position of
extinct taxa):
= Megaloptera
Burmeister 1839 (non Latreille
1802, nec Latreille 1807)
= Neuropterida
Pearce
1936
= Birostrata
Kluge 2005
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC
FORMAT: Myrmeleon/f=Hemerobius/g
TYPIFIED NAME IN USE: Myrmeleontida
MODERN STATUS: possibly, the senior synonym of Birostrata Kluge 2005 (see COMMENT).
COMMENT. Possibly, the name Euneuropteroidea is the oldest correct circumscriptional name of a holophyletic taxon Birostrata (which in modern literature is often wrongly called Neuroptera or Planipennia). However, among the taxa originally included into Euneuropteroidea by Krausse & Wolff 1919, there are extinct taxa Prohemerobius/fg, Solenoptilon/fg, Kalligramma/fg, Nymphites/fg and Mesochrysopa/fg, known only as fossil adults. The only reason to unite these taxa with Birostrata, is that their wing venation have features of Neuropteroidea, but have no special features of Rhaphidioptera, Nothomegaloptera or Eumegaloptera; at the same time, no one of these taxa has distinct diagnosis basing on wing venation. Probably, the taxon Euneuropteroidea is poorly a plesiomorphon, ancestral for Rhaphidioptera and Meganeuroptera and existing since Permian (or at least since Lias, from which the type-species of Prohemerobius Handlirsch 1906 was described), unlike the holophyletic taxon Birostrata.