Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae
Alternative spelling: Mylacrididae
Synonyms: Idiomylacridae Handlirsch 1906, Neorthroblattinidae Handlirsch 1906
Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1879. Palaeozoic Cockroaches: A complete revision of the species of both worlds, with an essay toward their classification. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:23-134
Parent taxon: Blattodea according to E. A. Jarzembowski and J. W. Schneider 2007
See also Cockerell 1927, Durden 1969, Handlirsch 1906, Handlirsch 1911, Handlirsch 1922, Laurentiaux-Vieira and Laurentiaux 1980, Martens et al. 2005, Pruvost 1919, Schneider 1983, Scudder 1879, Scudder 1885, Scudder 1886, Scudder 1893, Scudder 1895, Sellards 1904, Tillyard 1916, Tillyard 1923 and Zeuner 1955
Sister taxa: Archimylacridae, Blattoidea agilis, Blattoidea confusa, Blattoidea dictyoneura, Blattoidea excellens, Blattoidea propria, Blattoidea separata, Blattoidea singularis, Blattoidea venusta, Blattulidae, Mesoblattinidae, Mylacris packardii, Parallelophoridae, Poroblattinidae, Sinogrammitidae, Acadelytridae, Hsuopterites, Sinogramma, Stantonia, Ptiloteuthis, Blattoidea perbrevis, Blattoidea bella, Gerablattina perita, Blattoidea minuta, Blattoidea sellardsiana, Blattoidea acuminata, Neomylacridae, Blattoidea lobata, Xylophagodea, Blattoidea delicula, Blattoidea minima, Sinoblatta, Blattoidea, Etoblattina exigua, Mancusoblattidae, Gerablattina richmondiana, Blattoidea melanderi, Delpuenteblattidae, Proteremidae, Pseudomylacridae, Spiloblattidae, Blattelidae, Blattoidea relicta, Argentinoblattidae, Megalocerca, Neoblattariae
Subtaxa: Amblymylacris Aphelomylacris Austromylacrites Blattina bretonensis Cathayiblatta Cyphomylacris Dictyomylacrinae Dictyomylacris Drybrookia Goniomylacris Hemimylacrinae Moravamylacris Mylacridae carbonina Mylacridium Mylacrinae Mylacris Neorthroblattina Opsiomylacris Orthomylacrinae Orthomylacris Paromylacris Paromylacris ampla Platymylacris Ptilomylacris Rhodesiomylacris Simplicius Sooblatta Sphenomylacris
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (1 collection), China (1)
• Permian of China (1), the Czech Republic (5), Germany (8), United States (1: Colorado), Zimbabwe (1)
• Carboniferous of Canada (21: Nova Scotia), France (16), Germany (6), Morocco (3), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (16), United States (35: Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia)
Total: 117 collections including 207 occurrences