†family Alienopteridae Bai et al. 2016 (winged insect)

Insecta - Alienoptera - Alienopteridae

Synonym: Aethiocarenidae Poinar and Brown 2016

Full reference: M. Bai, R. G. Beutel, K. D. Klass, B. Wipfler, and W. W. Zhang. 2016. Taxonomic names, in †Alienoptera — A new insect order in the roach-mantodean twilight zone. Gondwana Research 39:317-326

Parent taxon: Alienoptera according to C. H. Luo et al. 2022

See also Bai et al. 2016, Hinkelman 2019, Poinar and Brown 2016, Szabó et al. 2022 and Vršanský et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Umenocoleidae, Umenocoleoidea

Subtaxa: Aethiocarenus Alienopterella Alienopterus Apiblatta Caputoraptor Chimaeroblattina Eminespina Formicamendax Grant Meilia Teyia Vcelesvab

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of United States (1: Colorado collection)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (2), Myanmar (13)

Total: 16 collections including 26 occurrences

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