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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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