Praeblattella arcuata Oyama et al. 2022 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae

Full reference: N. Oyama, H. Yukawa, and T. Imai. 2022. New cockroach assemblage from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Fukui, Japan. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A: Palaeozoology - Stratigraphy 321:37-52

Belongs to Praeblattella according to N. Oyama et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Praeblattella dichotoma, Praeblattella elegans, Praeblattella inexpecta, Praeblattella jurassica, Praeblattella krzeminski, Praeblattella ponomarenkoi, Praeblattella solus, Praeblattella zrnko

Type specimen: FPDM-I-1553, a forewing. Its type locality is Site 2, Sugiyama River, which is in an Aptian fluvial siliciclastic in the Kitadani Formation of Japan.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Site 2, Sugiyama River

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