NOMEN: Rhaphidioptera Navas 1916 [L. Navás , 1916. Notas sobre al orden de los Rafidiopteros (Ins.). Memorias de la Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona, (3) 12: 507-513 {= (3) 12 (20): 1-9}]
ORIGINAL LISTED
MEMBERSHIP (Navas 1916):
Raphididae
(= Rhaphididae)
+ Inocellidae
CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Tetramera Billberg
1820 (non Tertamera Dumeril
1806 et al.)
= Aponeuroptera Crampton 1916
= Raphidioptera Martynov 1938
TYPIFIED
NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Raphidia/fg (incl.
Inocellia)
TYPIFIED
NAMES IN USE: Raphidia (sensu
Linnaeus 1758), Raphidiacea, Raphidiades, Raphididae,
Raphidides, Raphidinae, Raphidites, Raphidiidae,
Raphidiides, Raphidiina, Raphidiinae, Raphidioidea
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the oldest generally accepted name of a holophyletic
taxon.
Systematic position of Rhaphidiopterta:
| Neuropteroidea Birostrata Rhaphidioptera Meganeuroptera Eumegaloptera Nothomegaloptera |
Kluge
2010 BioNomina
Dual-Nom
:
Based on traditional Greek-to-Latin transliteration, Navás (1916) believed the correct spelling of the generic name to be Rhaphidia rather than Raphidia, and thus named the family Rhaphididae and his new order, Rhaphidioptera. The original spelling of generic name should be used whether or not grammatically correct (ICZN 32.5.1); any different subsequent spelling (unjustified emendation) is regarded as junior objective synonym with its own author and date (ICZN 33.2.3); and family-group names should be based on the original spelling (ICZN 35.4.1). Thus, the generic name from which family-group names should be derived is Raphidia Linnaeus 1758, not Rhaphidia Billberg 1820. However, the name Rhaphidioptera is not subject to these rules, since its not a family-group name and includes the additional -pter- element, so in this case the original spelling of Rhaphidioptera Navás 1916 should be used with its author and date, while Raphidioptera Martynov 1938 should be considered its unjustified emendation and a circumscriptional synonym and used with its own author and date.