Protoptera Rasnitsyn, 1977 Paoliida is an extinct order of winged insects that lived in the late Paleozoic.

Historically, both their systematic position and composition were controversial – for instance they had been considered as palaeodictyopterans, as basal Neoptera, or as stem-group of Pterygota – but recent studies have resolved them as the sister group of Dictyoptera.

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