Paleoischnoptera diaphanes Béthoux and Nel 2005

Insecta - Dicondylia

Alternative combination: Ischnoptera diaphanes

Full reference: O. Béthoux and A. Nel. 2005. Some Palaeozoic "Protorthoptera" are "ancestral" Orthopteroides: major wing braces as clues to a new split among the "Protorthoptera" (Insecta). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2:285-309

Belongs to Paleoischnoptera according to T. Schubnel et al. 2019

See also Béthoux and Nel 2005

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN DHT-R11469, 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.

Distribution: found only at Commentry (MNHN later coll)

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