Blattula apicifurca Lin 1986 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Blattulidae

Alternative combination: Mesoblattula apicifurca

Full reference: Q. B. Lin. 1986. Early Mesozoic fossil insects from South China. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series B 170:1-112

Belongs to Blattula according to M. E. Clapham 2023

See also Lin 1986

Sister taxa: Blattula aberrans, Blattula anuniversala, Blattula bacharensis, Blattula brevicaudata, Blattula choutinensis, Blattula colorata, Blattula ctinoida, Blattula cubitalis, Blattula curvula, Blattula delicatula, Blattula discors, Blattula disjuncta, Blattula dubia, Blattula elongata, Blattula extensa, Blattula flamma, Blattula geinitzi, Blattula hymena, Blattula iensis, Blattula incompleta, Blattula intercalata, Blattula isotoma, Blattula kellos, Blattula kiensis, Blattula lanceolata, Blattula langfeldti, Blattula liaoningensis, Blattula mikro, Blattula mini, Blattula mirta, Blattula mongolica, Blattula pachohymena, Blattula piveteaui, Blattula platypa, Blattula prestwichii, Blattula rudis, Blattula shurabica, Blattula sibirica, Blattula similis, Blattula sincera, Blattula tchakrasensis, Blattula tuodianensis, Blattula turanica, Blattula udensis, Blattula universala, Blattula velika, Blattula vidlickai, Blattula vulgara, Blattula willmotti, Blattula zaoshangensis, Mesoblattula chengdeensis

Type specimen: NIGP 70025, a tegmen. Its type locality is KHG 181, Meitian, Yuanzhu, Lanshan County, which is in a Hettangian terrestrial mudstone in the Guanyintan Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at KHG 181, Meitian, Yuanzhu, Lanshan County

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