Elisama arcta Scudder 1886 (cockroach)

Insecta - Blattaria - Blattulidae

Alternative combination: Ctenoblattina arcta

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1886. A review of Mesozoic cockroaches. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:439-484

Belongs to Elisama according to H. Sendi 2025

See also Handlirsch 1906 and Scudder 1886

Sister taxa: Elisama algeriaensis, 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 oliveirai, Elisama parallela, Elisama prelistama, Elisama pterostigmata, Elisama scudderi, Elisama simplex, Elisama simplex, Elisama toledoi, Elisama tsaganica, Araripeblatta simplex

Type specimen: Its type locality is English Purbeck (unknown locality), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal horizon in the United Kingdom

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at English Purbeck (unknown locality)

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