Vitisma orientalis Vršanský 2005 (winged insect)

Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae

Full reference: P. Vršanský. 2005. Lower Cretaceous cockroaches and mantids (Insecta: Blattaria, Mantodea) from the Sharin-Gol in Mongolia. Entomological Problems 35(2):163-167

Belongs to Vitisma according to P. Vršanský 2005

Sister taxa: Vitisma diffusa, Vitisma occidentalis, Vitisma okata, Vitisma rasnitsyni

Type specimen: PIN 4306/185(188), a forewing. Its type locality is Sharin-Gol (bed 350/6), which is in a Barremian terrestrial horizon in the Sharin-Gol Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at Sharin-Gol (bed 350/6)

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