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Periplaneta

Insecta - Blattodea - Blattidae

Taxonomy

Periplaneta was named by Burmeister (1838). It is extant.

It was assigned to Blattinae by Piton (1940), Zhang (1989), Šmídová (2020), Djernæs and Murienne (2022).

Species

P. eocaenica, P. houlberti, P. hylecoeta, P. lacera, P. perialla, P. relicta, P. smithiae, P. sphodra, P. succinica

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1838	Periplaneta Burmeister p. 502
1940	Periplaneta Piton p. 127
1989	Periplaneta Zhang p. 43
2020	Periplaneta Šmídová
2022	Periplaneta Djernæs and Murienne

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata

Rank	Name	Author
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Polyneoptera	Martynov 1938
—	Holopandictyoptera
superorder	Dictyoptera	Latreille 1829
order	Blattodea	(Latreille 1810)
—	Solumblattodea
superfamily	Blattoidea
family	Blattidae
subfamily	Blattinae
genus	Periplaneta

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. Periplaneta Burmeister 1838

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†Periplaneta eocaenica Meunier 1921

†Periplaneta houlberti Piton 1940

†Periplaneta hylecoeta Zhang 1989

†Periplaneta lacera Zhang 1989

†Periplaneta perialla Anisyutkin and Perkovsky 2021

†Periplaneta relicta Meunier 1921

†Periplaneta smithiae Barna et al. 2023

†Periplaneta sphodra Zhang et al. 1994

†Periplaneta succinica Shelford 1910

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: base of the Selandian to the top of the Holocene or 61.66000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (10 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Selandian	61.66 - 59.24	France (Auvergne)	P. houlberti (113685)
Bridgerian	50.5 - 46.2	USA (Colorado)	P. smithiae (181560)
MP 11	48.07 - 41.03	Germany (Hessen)	P. eocaenica, P. relicta (120036)
Uintan	46.2 - 39.7	USA (Colorado)	P. smithiae (224004)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Ukraine	P. perialla (221240)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	P. succinica (124073)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	China (Shandong)	P. hylecoeta (128551) P. lacera (128552) P. sphodra (138944)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Tanzania	P. sp. (123991)