Lecopterum delicosum Sellards 1909 (winged insect)

Insecta - Protorthoptera

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 Lecopterum according to R. J. Tillyard 1937

See also Handlirsch 1922 and Sellards 1909

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Sellards 824, a forewing. Its type locality is Elmo, Sellards collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Permian of United States (2: Kansas collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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