Liomopterum sellardsi Carpenter 1950 (ice crawler)

Insecta - Grylloblattodea - Liomopteridae

Full reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1950. The Lower Permian insects of Kansas. Part 10. The order Protorthoptera: the family Liomopteridae and its relatives. Proceedings of the Academy of Arts and Sciences 78(4):185-219

Belongs to Liomopterum according to Y. Y. Cui et al. 2021

See also Carpenter 1950 and Storozhenko 1998

Sister taxa: Liomopterum connexus, Liomopterum daenerys, Liomopterum elongatum, Liomopterum fuscatum, Liomopterum minor, Liomopterum ornatum

Type specimen: MCZ 4978, a forewing. Its type locality is Elmo, MCZ 1932 collection Lower Limestone, 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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