†order Alienoptera Bai et al. 2016 (winged insect)
Synonym: Aethiocarenodea Poinar and Brown 2016
Full reference: M. Bai, R. G. Beutel, K. D. Klass, B. Wipfler, and W. W. Zhang. 2016. Taxonomic names, in †Alienoptera — A new insect order in the roach-mantodean twilight zone. Gondwana Research 39:317-326
Parent taxon: Dictyoptera according to C. H. Luo et al. 2022
See also Bai et al. 2016, Poinar and Brown 2016 and Vršanský et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Architermes, Baissomantidae, Blattodea, Blattuloidea, Kinklidoblatta, Mantodea, Pozabudnutie, Protoblattinopsis, Qilianiblatta, Raptoblatta, Sinothauma, Sobytie, Subioblattidae, Raptoriae
Subtaxa: Alienopteridae Umenocoleidae Umenocoleoidea
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