Perlucipecta aurea Wei and Ren 2013 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae

Full reference: D. D. Wei and D. Ren. 2013. Completely preserved cockroaches of the family Mesoblattinidae from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Liaoning Province, NE China). Geologica Carpathica 64:291-304

Belongs to Perlucipecta according to K. S. So et al. 2021

See also Vršanský 2020 and Wei and Ren 2013

Sister taxa: Perlucipecta cosmopolitana, Perlucipecta cyclopica, Perlucipecta jinjuicola, Perlucipecta liangiae, Perlucipecta major, Perlucipecta santanensis, Perlucipecta vrsanskyi

Type specimen: CNU-B-NN2011610, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Huangbanjigou, Chaomidian Village, CNU 2011 collection, which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of China (1 collection), North Korea (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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