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family †Elcanidae Handlirsch, 1906

• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (18):
  • Handlirsch. 1906. Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen. 1(3-4):412, 516  
  • Handlirsch. 1920. Handbuch der Entomologie, (Schröder, C.) 3:186  
  • Handlirsch. 1939. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 49:36  
  • Sharov. 1968. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 118:20, 166 >> Note: Oedischiidea: Elcanidae
  • Zessin. 1987. Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 34(1-3):64 >> Note: key to genera and species
  • Zessin. 1991. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 67(1):157-168
  • Martins-Neto. 1992. Rev. bras. Entomol. 36(4):817-830
  • Gorochov. 1995. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 260:8, 21, 98, 100, 103
  • Gorochov. 1995. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 260:87, 91, 120, 132, 158
  • Ansorge. 1996. Neue Paläontologische Abhandlungen 2:21
  • Gorochov, Jarzembowski & Coram. 2006. Cretac. Res. 27:642  
  • Penalver & Grimaldi. 2010. Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. 46(1-2):88
  • Fang, Yan, Bo Wang, Haichun Zhang, He Wang, Jarzembowski, D. Zheng, Qi Zhang, Lia & Q. Liu. 2015. Cretac. Res. 52:323–328  
  • Heads, M.J. Thomas & Yinan Wang. 2018. Zootaxa 4527(4):575
  • Gu, J.-J., Shih & D. Ren. 2019. Rhythms of Insect Evolution: Evidence from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Northern China 129
  • Gu, J.-J., H. Tian, Junyou Wang, Wenzhe Zhang, D. Ren & Yue. 2020. ZooKeys 954:65, 71  
  • Kocárek. 2020. Cretac. Res. 116 >> Note: key to genera
  • Nel, A. & Jouault. 2022. Historical Biology 34(10):2070-2078
• Type genus:  Elcana Giebel, 1856 (= Panorpidium Westwood, 1854); priority for family-group names based on Elcana dates from Elcanidae Handlirsch, 1906.  First use as Elcanidae by Handlirsch, 1906.

• subfamily †Archelcaninae Gorochov, Jarzembowski & Coram, 2006
• genus †Archelcana Sharov, 1968
• genus †Hispanelcana Penalver & Grimaldi, 2010
• genus †Jeholelcana Fang, Heads, Wang, Zhang & Wang, 2018
• genus †Parelcana Handlirsch, 1906
• genus †Sibelcana Gorochov, 1990
• genus †Sinoelcana Gu, Tian, Wang & Yue, 2020
• genus †Synelcana Zessin, 1988
• subfamily †Elcaninae Handlirsch, 1906
• synonym Baisselcaninae Gorochov, 1986
• genus †Caelielca Uchida, 2022
• genus †Cratoelcana Martins-Neto, 1991
• genus †Ellca Kocárek, 2020
• genus †Eubaisselcana Gorochov, 1986
• genus †Hukawnelca Uchida, 2022
• genus †Minelcana Gorochov, Jarzembowski & Coram, 2006
• genus †Panorpidium Westwood, 1854
• genus †Probaisselcana Gorochov, 1989
• genus †Cascadelcana Fang, Muscente, Heads, Wang & Xiao, 2018
• species †virginiana Fang, Muscente, Heads, Wang & Xiao, 2018
• genus †Cenoelcanus Schubnel, Desutter-Grandcolas, Garrouste, Hervet & Nel, 2020
• species †menatensis Schubnel, Desutter-Grandcolas, Garrouste, Hervet & Nel, 2020
• genus †Elcanonympha Heads & Thomas, 2018
• species †diana Heads & Thomas, 2018
• genus †Elcanopsis Tillyard, 1918
• species †sydneiensis Tillyard, 1918
• genus †Liaonemobius Ren, 1998
• species †tanae Ren, 1998
• genus †Longioculus Poinar, Gorochov & Buckley, 2007
• species †burmensis Poinar, Gorochov & Buckley, 2007
• genus †Macrelcana Karny, 1932
• species †ungeri (Heer, 1849)
• genus †Monitelcana Xu, Luo, Jarzembowski, Fang & Wang, 2022
• species †penalveri Xu, Luo, Jarzembowski, Fang & Wang, 2022

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