Subfamily Brucheiserinae Navás, 1927

Brucheiserinae Navás, 1927c: 63 (as Brucheiseridae, in Megaloptera) [type genus: Brucheiser Navás, 1927c: 62]. — Riek 1975: 118 (as Brucheiseridae). — New 1989: 12 (as Brucheiserinae). — Meinander 1990: 32 (as Brucheiserinae).

Taxonomic notes

Navás (1927c) described a new extant genus and species from Argentina – Brucheiser argentinus – which he placed in a new family, Brucheiseridae, in the order Megaloptera . Riek (1975) described a second species of this same genus and transferred Brucheiseridae to the order Neuroptera . New (1989) demoted Brucheiseridae to a subfamily of Coniopterygidae, a placement that was adopted in Meinander’s (1990) world catalogue of the Coniopterygidae, and subsequently by all later authors. Brucheiserinae currently contains two genera – Brucheiser and Flintoconis Sziráki, 2007 – both extant, and only the first of which has ever been placed in Megaloptera .