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Methana

Insecta - Blattodea - Blattidae

Taxonomy
Methana was named by Stal (1877). It is extant.

It was assigned to Polyzosteriinae by Jell and Duncan (1986); and to Methanini by McKittrick (1964) and Djernæs and Murienne (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Methana Stal
1964Methana McKittrick p. 21
1986Methana Jell and Duncan p. 132
2022Methana Djernæs and Murienne

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
Solumblattodea
superfamilyBlattoidea
familyBlattidae
subfamilyPolyzosteriinae()
tribeMethanini
genusMethanaStal 1877

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.

G. Methana Stal 1877
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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: Late/Upper Aptian or 122.46000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Aptian122.46 - 113.0Australia (Victoria) M. sp. (77192)