Lisca minuta Sellards 1909 (ice crawler)

Insecta - Grylloblattodea - Lemmatophoridae

Alternative combination: Lemmatophora minuta

Synonyms: Lemmatophora cubitalis Handlirsch 1937, Lemmatophora reducta Tillyard 1928

Full reference: E. H. Sellards. 1909. Types of Permian Insects, Part III: Megasecoptera, Orycloblattinidae and Protorthoptera. American Journal of Science 27:151-173

Belongs to Lisca according to S. Y. Storozhenko 1998

See also Carpenter 1935, Carpenter 1939, Handlirsch 1922, Handlirsch 1937, Sellards 1909, Tillyard 1928 and Zimmerman 1962

Sister taxa: none

Type specimens:

  • Lisca minuta: Sellards 916, a forewing. Its type locality is Elmo, Sellards collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas.
  • Lemmatophora cubitalis: YPM 5208, a wing. Its type locality is Elmo, YPM 1921 collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas.
  • Lemmatophora reducta: YPM 5224, a forewing (fragment). Its type locality is Elmo, YPM 1921 collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (10: Kansas, Oklahoma collections)

Total: 10 collections including 12 occurrences

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