Supella dominicana Poinar 2022 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Pseudophyllodromiidae

Full reference: G. Poinar. 2022. Supella dominicana, a new species of cockroach (Blattida: Ectobiidae) with developed spermatids in Dominican amber. Biologia 78:1731-1738

Belongs to Supella according to G. Poinar 2022

Sister taxa: Supella (Nemosupella), Supella eocenica

Type specimen: Poinar O-2-43, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber, La Toca mine (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the La Toca Formation of the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber, La Toca mine (Poinar coll)

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