Magniscapa alligans Aristov and Rasnitsyn 2008

Insecta - Protorthoptera - Sheimiidae

Alternative combination: Pseudosheimia alligans

Full reference: D. S. Aristov and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 2008. Position and taxonomy of the Permian fossil insect family Permembiidae (Insecta: Palaeomanteida = Miomoptera). Russian Entomological Journal 17(4):327-334

Belongs to Magniscapa according to D. E. Shcherbakov 2015

See also Aristov and Rasnitsyn 2008

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN 3353/447, an exoskeleton (complete insect). Its type locality is Soyana (PIN collection 3353), which is in a Roadian lagoonal siliciclastic in the Iva-Gora Beds Formation of the Russian Federation.

Distribution: found only at Soyana (PIN collection 3353)

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