Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae
Full reference: F. M. Carpenter. 1934. Carboniferous insects from Pennsylvania in the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 22:323-341
Belongs to Actinomylacris according to F. M. Carpenter 1934
See also Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1920 and Schneider 1983
Sister taxa: Mylacris abrupta, Mylacris alutacea, Mylacris ampla, Mylacris analis, Mylacris angusta, Mylacris anthracophila, Mylacris antiqua, Mylacris burri, Mylacris diplodiscus, Mylacris dubia, Mylacris lapsa, Mylacris lucifuga, Mylacris maior, Mylacris ovalis, Mylacris paradoxa, Mylacris pennsylvanica, Mylacris pulchra, Mylacris rugulosa, Mylacris sellardsi, Mylacris similis, Mylacris truncata, Mylacris truncatula, Mylacris virginiana, Promylacris ovalis, Lithomylacris gallica, Lithomylacris ataxica, Chalepomylacris pulchra
Type specimen: CM 6907, a tegmen. Its type locality is South Good Spring colliery, which is in a Westphalian D terrestrial siliciclastic in the Llewellyn Formation of Pennsylvania.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at South Good Spring colliery
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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