†Vitisma okata Kováčová 2022 (winged insect)
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Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae
Full reference: Z. Kováčová. 2022. Two new cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria: Vitisma, Nuurcala) from the Lower Cretaceous sediments of Shar-Tologoy in Mongolia. Biologia 78:1551-1563
Belongs to Vitisma according to Z. Kováčová 2022
Sister taxa: Vitisma diffusa, Vitisma occidentalis, Vitisma orientalis, Vitisma rasnitsyni
Type specimen: PIN 4271/22, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Shar-Tolgoy (PIN collection 4271), which is in an Aptian lacustrine marl in the Shar-Tolgoy Formation of Mongolia.
Ecology: fast-moving arboreal herbivore
Distribution: found only at Shar-Tolgoy (PIN collection 4271)
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