Mylacris anthracophila Scudder 1868 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae

Alternative combination: Mylacris anthracophilum

Synonyms: Actinomylacris carbonum Scudder 1884, Mylacridae pseudocarbonum Handlirsch 1906, Mylacris carbonum Scudder 1884, Mylacris elongata Scudder 1895, Mylacris pseudocarbonum Handlirsch 1906

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1868. Supplement to descriptions of articulates. Descriptions of fossil insects found on Mazon Creek, and near Morris, Grundy Co. Ill. Geological Survey of Illinois 3:566-572

Belongs to Mylacris according to A. Handlirsch 1920

See also Durden 1969, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1922, Scudder 1868, Scudder 1879, Scudder 1884, Scudder 1885, Scudder 1895 and Sellards 1904

Sister taxa: Mylacris abrupta, Mylacris alutacea, Mylacris ampla, Mylacris analis, Mylacris angusta, Mylacris antiqua, Mylacris burri, Mylacris diplodiscus, Mylacris dubia, Mylacris lapsa, Mylacris lucifuga, Mylacris maior, Mylacris ovalis, Mylacris paradoxa, Mylacris pennsylvanica, Mylacris pulchra, Mylacris rugulosa, Mylacris sellardsi, Mylacris similis, Mylacris truncata, Mylacris truncatula, Mylacris virginiana, Actinomylacris similis, Lithomylacris gallica, Lithomylacris ataxica, Promylacris ovalis, Chalepomylacris pulchra

Type specimens:

  • Mylacris anthracophila: Its type locality is Colchester, roof shales of No2 Coal Member, which is in a Bashkirian terrestrial shale in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.
  • Actinomylacris carbonum:
  • Mylacridae pseudocarbonum: Its type locality is Cannelton, Vein C, which is in a Westphalian D terrestrial shale in the Llewellyn Formation of Pennsylvania.
  • Mylacris elongata: Coll Lacoe 2014 ab, a tegmen. Its type locality is Mazon Creek, USNM Lacoe Collection, which is in a Westphalian D interdistributary bay mudstone in the Carbondale Formation of Illinois.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (3: Illinois, Pennsylvania collections)

Total: 3 collections including 4 occurrences

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