Shurabia kapokkraalensis Wappler 2001

Insecta - Reculida - Geinitziidae

Alternative combination: Fletchitzia kapokkraalensis

Full reference: T. Wappler. 2001. New orthopteroid insects from the Upper Triassic Molteno Formation, Karoo Basin, southern Africa. Acta Geologica Leopoldensia 24(52/53):87-104

Belongs to Shurabia according to D. S. Aristov et al. 2009

See also Wappler 2001

Sister taxa: Shurabia aleda, Shurabia angustata, Shurabia anomala, Shurabia australis, Shurabia bashkuevi, Shurabia creta, Shurabia elegans, Shurabia ferganensis, Shurabia grandis, Shurabia hissarica, Shurabia inferior, Shurabia izyumica, Shurabia lukashevichae, Shurabia magna, Shurabia minuta, Shurabia minutissima, Shurabia ovata, Shurabia parvula, Shurabia permiana, Shurabia postiretis, Shurabia serrata, Shurabia sogutensis, Shurabia taewani, Shurabia tanga

Type specimen: PRE/F 16418, a forewing. Its type locality is Kap 111, Kapokkraal, which is in a Carnian wet floodplain horizon in the Molteno Formation of South Africa.

Distribution: found only at Kap 111, Kapokkraal

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