Dicladoblatta defossa Scudder 1895

Insecta - Dicondylia - Spiloblattinidae

Alternative combination: Etoblattina defossa

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 Dicladoblatta according to A. Handlirsch 1922

See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1920 and Scudder 1895

Sister taxon: Dicladoblatta marginata

Type specimen: Coll Lacoe 2128 ab, a tegmen. Its type locality is Cassville, which is in an Asselian terrestrial shale in the Cassville Shales Formation of West Virginia.

Distribution: found only at Cassville

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