Opsiomylacris thevenini Meunier 1912 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae

Synonym: Paromylacris boulei Meunier 1921

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1912. Les Protoblattinae et les Mylacrinae du terrain houiller de Commentry. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences 154:1194-1196

Belongs to Opsiomylacris according to J. W. Schneider et al. 2021

See also Meunier 1921 and Schneider 1983

Sister taxa: Opsiomylacris (Opsiomylacris), Opsiomylacris (Posteriomylacris), Opsiomylacris densistriata, Opsiomylacris elegans, Opsiomylacris phyloblattoidea, Opsiomylacris postelegans, Opsiomylacris posthumus, Opsiomylacris preciosa, Opsiomylacris procera, Opsiomylacris procerus, Opsiomylacris svitaviensis

Type specimens:

  • Opsiomylacris thevenini: MNHN-F-R51448, a tegmen. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN later coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.
  • Paromylacris boulei: MNHN-F-R.51444, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN later coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of France (1 collection), Morocco (3)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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