This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
A. G. Kirejtshuk, 2020 - Taxonomic review of fossil coleopterous families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea - Geosciences (10), 73- (journal article, English)
M. E. Clapham, 2020 - Insect taxonomy information from the internet, with fixing of species orphaned by genus synonymy - (), - (unpublished, English)
R. G. Beutel, 2019 - Is †Skleroptera (†Stephanastus) an order in the stemgroup of Coleopterida (Insecta)? - Insect Systematics & Evolution (50), 670-678 (journal article, English)
O. Béthoux, 2016 - Reinvestigation of Protelytron permianum (Insecta; Early Permian; USA) as an example for applying reflectance transformation imaging to insect imprint fossils - Fossil record (20), 1-7 (journal article, English)
A. G. Kirejtshuk, 2013 - Skleroptera, a new order of holometabolous insects (Insecta) from the Carboniferous - Zoosystematica Rossica (22), 247-257 (journal article, English)
A. G. Kirejtshuk, 2013 - Taxonomic names, in The earliest known holometabolous insects - Nature (503), 257-261 (journal article, English)
D. E. Shcherbakov, 2002 - Order Forficulida Latreille, 1810. The earwigs and protelytropterans - History of Insects (), 288-291 (book chapter, English)
D. E. van Dijk, 1999 - Permian insects from the Beaufort Group of Natal, South Africa - Annals of the Natal Museum (40), 137-171 (journal article, English)
V. G. Novokshonov, 1998 - Iskopaemye nasekomye Chekardy - Chekarda - Mestonakhozhdenie Permskikh Iskopaemykh Rasteniy i Nasekomykh (), 25-54 (book chapter, Russian)
F. M. Carpenter, 1992 - - Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda (3/4), 1-655 (compendium, English)
J. Kukalová-Peck, 1987 - A substitute name for the extinct genus Stenelytron Kukalová (Protelytroptera) - Psyche (94), 339- (journal article, English)
E. F. Riek, 1976 - New Upper Permian insects from Natal, South Africa - Annals of the Natal Museum (22), 755-789 (journal article, English)
J. Langiaux, 1975 - Entomofaune du bassin de Blanzy-Montceau, nouvelles acquisitions - Revue Périodique de "La Physiophile" (82), 35-45 (journal article, French)
J. Kukalová, 1966 - Protelytroptera from the Upper Permian of Australia, with a discussion of the Protocoleoptera and Paracoleoptera - Psyche (73), 89-111 (journal article, English)
J. Kukalová, 1965 - Permian Protelytroptera, Coleoptera and Protorthoptera (Insecta) of Moravia - Sborník Geologických Ved, Paleontologie (6), 61-95 (journal article, English)
F. M. Carpenter, 1964 - The structure of the Protelytroptera, with description of a new genus from Permian strata of Moravia - Psyche (71), 183-197 (journal article, English)
C. C. Branson, 1948 - Bibliographic index of Permian invertebrates - Geological Society of America Memoir (26), 1-1049 (journal article, English)
G. M. Zalessky, 1947 - O dvukh novykh Permskikh zhukakh - Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR (56), 857-860 (journal article, Russian)
F. M. Carpenter, 1939 - The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 8: Additional Megasecoptera, Protodonata, Odonata, Homoptera, Psocoptera, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and Protoperlaria - Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (73), 29-70 (journal article, English)
B. B. Rohdendorf, 1939 - A new Protelytropteron from the Permian of the Urals - Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS (23), 506-508 (journal article, English)
F. Zeuner, 1933 - Die Stammesgeschichte der Käfer. Uher die Beziehungen der Form der Organe zu ihrer Funktion I - Palaeontologische Zeitschrift (15), 280-311 (journal article, German)
F. M. Carpenter, 1933 - The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 6: Delopteridae, Protelytroptera, Plectoptera and a New Collection of Protodonata, Odonata, Megasecoptera, Homoptera and Psocoptera - Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (68), 411-505 (journal article, English)
A. V. Martynov, 1932 - Permian fossil Insects from the Arkhangelsk district. Part II. Neuroptera, Megaloptera and Coleoptera, with the description of two new beetles from Tikhie Gory - Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta (2), 63-96 (serial monograph, Russian)
R. J. Tillyard, 1931 - Kansas Permian Insects, Part 13: The New Order Protelytroptera with a Discussion of its Relationships - American Journal of Science, Series 5 (21), 232-266 (journal article, English)
R. J. Tillyard, 1924 - Upper Permian Coleoptera and a new order from the Belmont Beds, New South Wales - Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (49), 429-435 (journal article, English)