Vitisma occidentalis Vršanský and Ansorge 2001 (winged insect)

Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae

Full reference: P. Vršanský and J. Ansorge. 2001. New Lower Cretaceous polyphagid cockroaches from Spain (Blattaria, Polyphagidae, Vitisminae subfam. nov.). Cretaceous Research 22:157-162

Belongs to Vitisma according to P. Vršanský and J. Ansorge 2001

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

Type specimen: FGWG 147, a forewing (left & right forewings). Its type locality is La Cabrua outcrop, Sierra del Montsec (Ansorge FGWG coll), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large lime mudstone in the la Pedrera de Rubies Formation of Spain.

Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore

Distribution: found only at La Cabrua outcrop, Sierra del Montsec (Ansorge FGWG coll)

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