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Blattidium symyrus

Insecta - Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae

Taxonomy

Blattidium symyrus was named by Westwood (1854). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Lower Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie coll.), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Mesoblattina symyrus by Handlirsch (1906).

Synonyms

Blattidium nogaus was named by Westwood (1854). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Lower Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie coll.), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was synonymized objectively with Blattidium symyrus by Gorochov et al. (2006); it was considered a nomen dubium by Handlirsch (1906) and Zeuner (1939); it was misspelled as Mesogryllus nogans by Wang et al. (2018).
Rithma morrisi was named by Giebel (1856). It is an impression. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Lower Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie coll.), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Heer (1864); it was synonymized subjectively with Mesoblattina symyrus by Handlirsch (1906).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1854	Blattidium nogaus Westwood pp. 390, 396 figs. Pl 18, fig 23
1854	Blattidium symyrus Westwood pp. 390, 396 figs. Pl 18, fig 33
1856	Rithma morrisi Giebel p. 319
1864	Blattidium nogaus Heer p. 290
1864	Blattidium symyrus Heer p. 290
1885	Blattidium simyrus Scudder p. 766 fig. 961
1886	Blattidium nogaus Scudder p. 474
1886	Blattidium simyrus Scudder p. 474 figs. Pl 48 fig 17
1906	Mesoblattina symyrus Handlirsch p. 536
2018	Mesogryllus nogans Wang et al. p. 149

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
—	Holopandictyoptera
superorder	Dictyoptera	Latreille 1829
order	Blattodea	(Latreille 1810)
—	Solumblattodea
superfamily	Blattoidea
family	Mesoblattinidae
genus	Blattidium
species	symyrus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Blattidium symyrus Westwood 1854

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Invalid names: Blattidium nogaus Westwood 1854 [objective synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Early/Lower Berriasian or 145.00000 to 140.20000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Berriasian	145.0 - 140.2	United Kingdom (England)	Blattidium nogaus, Blattidium symyrus (type locality: 105966)