Archescytinidae

Archescytinidae Temporal range: Early Permian-Early Jurassic,[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Thysanoptera
Family:	Tillyard, 1926
Type genus
†Archescytina Tillyard, 1926
Genera[2]
†Archescytina Tillyard, 1926 (type genus) †Arroyoscyta Rasnitsyn, 2004 †Austroscytina Evans, 1944 †Bekkerscytina Evans, 1958 †Eoscytina Evans, 1958 †Kaltanaphis Becker-Midgisova, 1959 †Kaltanoscytina Becker-Midgisova, 1959 †Lepidoscytina Wang, 1980 †Lithoscytina Carpenter, 1933 †Maripsocus Zalessky, 1939 †Paleoscytina Carpenter, 1933 †Parapermopsylla Zimmerman, 1962 †Permocephalus Evans, 1943 †Permopsylla Tillyard, 1926 †Permopsyllopsis Zalessky, 1939 †Permothrips Martynov, 1935 †Protopincombea Evans, 1943 †Sarbaloscytina Becker-Midgisova, 1959 †Sojanoscytina Martynov, 1933 †Tsekardaella Becker-Midgisova, 1960

Archescytinidae is an extinct family of fungus-feeding thrips belonging to the order Thysanoptera that was first defined by Robert John Tillyard in 1926.^[3][2] They are the oldest known thrips family and they existed between the Asselian epoch of the Early Permian and the Toarcian epoch of the Early Jurassic.^[1]