Cobaloblatta simulans Cockerell 1918 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Necymylacridae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1918. New species of North American fossil beetles, cockroaches, and tsetse flies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 54:301-311

Belongs to Cobaloblatta according to C. J. Durden 1984

See also Cockerell 1918 and Handlirsch 1922

Sister taxa: Necymylacris bohemica, Necymylacris fascigera, Necymylacris handlirschi, Necymylacris hastata, Necymylacris heros, Necymylacris lacoana, Necymylacris lerichei, Necymylacris meunieri, Necymylacris reisbachensis, Necymylacris scudderi, Necymylacris steinbachensis, Necymylacris sulcata, Atimoblatta reducta, Atimoblatta curvipennis, Apotypoma platyptera, Apotypoma arndti, Apotypoma longa, Dinoblatta scudderi, Prantlites bohemicus, Friciella aurea

Type specimen: USNM 64344, a tegmen. Its type locality is Humphreys clay pit, Port Barnett, which is in a Westphalian D terrestrial siliciclastic in the Pottsville Formation of Pennsylvania.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Humphreys clay pit, Port Barnett

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