Insecta - Blattaria - Blattulidae

Alternative combination: Araripeblatta oliveirai

Full reference: M. Mendes and L. A. Coelho. 2007. Novas baratas (Insecta, Blattodea, Blattidae) da Formação Santana, Cretáceo Inferior, nordeste do Brasil. Paleontologia: Cenários de Vida 449-457

Belongs to Elisama according to H. Sendi 2025

See also Mendes and Coelho 2007

Sister taxa: Elisama algeriaensis, Elisama arcta, Elisama baeki, Elisama bolzoni, Elisama brevis, Elisama cuboides, Elisama dignata, Elisama dornellesi, Elisama elongata, Elisama extenuata, Elisama fragmentaria, Elisama globosa, Elisama grandis, Elisama hindwingnii, Elisama incerta, Elisama kacerovae, Elisama kneri, Elisama minor, Elisama parallela, Elisama prelistama, Elisama pterostigmata, Elisama scudderi, Elisama simplex, Elisama simplex, Elisama toledoi, Elisama tsaganica, Araripeblatta simplex

Type specimen: UNG CH 0012/2, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Crato, Pedra Branca quarry (UnG collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large carbonate in the Crato Formation of Brazil.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Crato, Pedra Branca quarry (UnG collection)

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