Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae
Alternative combination: Paromylacris pluteus
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1895. Revision of the American fossil cockroaches with descriptions of new forms. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 124:1-176
Belongs to Orthomylacris according to A. Handlirsch 1922
See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1920 and Scudder 1895
Sister taxa: Orthomylacris alutacea, Orthomylacris analis, Orthomylacris berryi, Orthomylacris contorta, Orthomylacris cordiformis, Orthomylacris delicatula, Orthomylacris franklini, Orthomylacris gurleyi, Orthomylacris hastata, Orthomylacris heeri, Orthomylacris mansfieldi, Orthomylacris mathieui, Orthomylacris northi, Orthomylacris pauperata, Orthomylacris pennsylvaniae, Orthomylacris pittstoniana, Orthomylacris recta, Orthomylacris rigida, Phthinomylacris medialis
Type specimen: Coll Lacoe 2040 a, a tegmen (fragment). Its type locality is Butler mine in Pittston, which is in a Westphalian D terrestrial shale/anthracite in the Pottsville Formation of Pennsylvania.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Butler mine in Pittston
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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