Insecta - Blattaria - Raphidiomimidae
Alternative combination: Mesoblattina blakei
Synonyms: Mesoblattina bensoni Scudder 1886, Mesoblattina polyneura Handlirsch 1939, Mesoblattina zirkelii Handlirsch 1906, Mesoblattopsis bensoni Scudder 1886, Ptyctoblattina acuteplicata Bode 1953, Ptyctoblattina completa Bode 1953, Trirhabdoblattina borealis Bode 1953
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1886. A review of Mesozoic cockroaches. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:439-484
Belongs to Liadoblattina according to J. H. Liang et al. 2018
See also Bode 1953, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1939, Scudder 1886 and Vršanský and Ansorge 2007
Sister taxa: Liadoblattina euryptera, Liadoblattina mongolica, Ptyctoblattina simplicior, Ptyctoblattina dilatata, Mesoblattopsis pruvosti, Mesoblattopsis franconica
Type specimens:
- Liadoblattina blakei: NHM I 3574, a forewing. Its type locality is Alderton Hill Quarry (Brodie collection), which is in a Toarcian marine limestone in the United Kingdom.
- Mesoblattina bensoni: NHM I 3562, a forewing. Its type locality is Dumbleton, Gloucestershire (Brodie coll.), which is in a Toarcian marine limestone in the United Kingdom.
- Mesoblattina polyneura: FGWG 123/33, a forewing. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany.
- Mesoblattina zirkelii: FGWG 121/6, a forewing. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany.
- Ptyctoblattina acuteplicata:
- Ptyctoblattina completa: Its type locality is Grassel, Braunschweig, which is in a Toarcian offshore mudstone in the Posidonia Shale Formation of Germany.
- Trirhabdoblattina borealis:
Ecology: fast-moving volant insectivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Germany (7 collections), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 9 collections including 11 occurrences
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