The genus is solely known from an Early Cretaceous, Albian age, fossil amber found in Spain.

Despite the positioning and lack of preserved wings, enough details are present to show the specimen was not from a previously described genus.

The fossil was recovered from outcrops of the Escucha Formation in Moraza, part of the Province of Burgos in Northern Spain.

[1] Alavaraphidia was first studied by a group of paleoentomologists led by Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente of the University of Barcelona and including Enrique Peñalver, Xavier Delclòs, and Michael S. Engel.

While mostly missing from the specimen, what is preserved of the wings shows they were hyaline with brown veins and very short, strong setae.