Necymylacris heros Scudder 1879 (winged insect)

Insecta - Dicondylia - Necymylacridae

Alternative combination: Eumorphoblatta heros

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1879. Palaeozoic Cockroaches: A complete revision of the species of both worlds, with an essay toward their classification. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:23-134

Belongs to Necymylacris according to J. Schneider 1983

See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1920, Handlirsch 1922, Scudder 1879 and Scudder 1895

Sister taxa: Necymylacris bohemica, Necymylacris fascigera, Necymylacris gancaoshanensis, Necymylacris hadroptera, Necymylacris handlirschi, Necymylacris hastata, Necymylacris lacoana, Necymylacris lerichei, Necymylacris meunieri, Necymylacris reisbachensis, Necymylacris scudderi, Necymylacris sinica, Necymylacris steinbachensis, Necymylacris sulcata, Apotypoma longa, Apotypoma arndti, Apotypoma platyptera, Friciella aurea, Dinoblatta scudderi, Cobaloblatta simulans, Metaxyblatta gromotuchensis, Prantlites bohemicus, Atimoblatta reducta, Atimoblatta curvipennis

Type specimen: USNM 38056, a tegmen (well preserved forewing). Its type locality is Near Pittston, roof shales of Vein C, which is in a Westphalian D terrestrial shale in the Llewellyn Formation of Pennsylvania.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Near Pittston, roof shales of Vein C

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