The most ancient roach (Blattodea): a new genus and species from the earliest Late Carboniferous (Namurian) of China, with a discussion of the phylomorphogeny of early blattids

Zhang, Zhijun; Schneider, Joerg W.; Youchong, Hong

doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.634443

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“…Previous studies suggested a Namurian B/C/early Bashkirian age for the whole locality (Lu et al, 2002;Zhang et al, 2013), but ongoing studies (Trümper et al, 2017) are revealing that the locality is probably younger. A Moscovian age is more likely for the higher insect-bearing horizons.…”

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A new, rare and distinctive species of Panorthoptera (Insecta, Archaeorthoptera) from the Upper Carboniferous of Xiaheyan (Ningxia, China)

Béthoux²,

Ren

2017

Foss. Rec.

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Abstract. The Xiaheyan locality is providing abundant material on one of the earliest insect faunas. The most common species are comparatively remote relatives of Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets and katydids), belonging to the Archaeorthoptera nec Panorthoptera (the latter including crown Orthoptera). We establish the genus Sinogerarus gen. nov. to accommodate a new, rare species, S. pectinatus spec. nov., which can be conclusively assigned to Panorthoptera. It therefore represents the second occurrence of the group at this locality. The new species displays a distinctive combination of character states, adding to the knowledge of a number of Upper Carboniferous Panorthoptera whose relationships are poorly understood.

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A new, rare and distinctive species of Panorthoptera (Insecta, Archaeorthoptera) from the Upper Carboniferous of Xiaheyan (Ningxia, China)

Béthoux²,

Ren

2017

Foss. Rec.

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“…Fossil cockroaches occurred for the first time in the Late Carboniferous (Brongniart 1885;Zhang et al 2012), and gave birth to two different orders Isoptera and Mantodea (Vršanský 2002(Vršanský , 2010. They adapted to multiple types of ecosystems and reached a high level of ecological and morphological diversity (disparity) over the course of their evolution, including aquatic (Shelford 1909), pollinating (Nagamitsu & InoueMeunier 1914;Martínez-Delclòs 1993;Vršanský 2003bVršanský , 2004aVršanský ,b, 2009.…”

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Completely preserved cockroaches of the family Mesoblattinidae from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Liaoning Province, NE China)

Wei¹,

Ren²

2013

Geologica Carpathica

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Although cockroaches were the dominant insects in various Paleozoic and Mesozoic insect assemblages, their general morphology was extremely conservative. One of the most common of them, the Jurassic-Cretaceous family Mesoblattinidae, is described here for the first time on the basis of completely preserved specimens. Ninety-two specimens of Perlucipecta aurea gen. et sp. n. reveal details of head, mandible, male tergal glands and terminal hook; cercal, leg and antennal sensilla. Its congener, P. vrsanskyi is described from the same sediments of the Yixian Formation (Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous). The forewing venation variability of P. aurea, analysed for the first time in this family is nearly identical (CV = 6.23 %) with variability of two species of family Blattulidae that occur at the same locality (CV = 6.22 %; 5.72 %). The transitional nature of morphological characters represented by asymmetry between left and right wings (simple/branched forewing SC and hind wing M) in P. aurea documents the phylogenetic relation between the families Mesoblattinidae and Ectobiidae

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“…Cockroaches, mantises and termites represent the traditionally monophyletic Dictyoptera (Hennig 1981;Grimaldi & Engel 2005;Djernaes et al 2012Djernaes et al , 2015Bai et al 2016), originating in the Late Carboniferous (Zhang et al 2012) and being numerically abundant during the Palaeozoic (Schneider 1977;1978a, b;1980a, b: 19831984;Schneider & Werneburg 1993). In the Mesozoic, both termites (Isoptera) and mantises (Mantodea) evolved by the pattern (Mantodea + ("Blattaria"+ Isoptera)) (Grimaldi 2007) or independently originated from the cockroach family Liberiblattinidae (Vršanský 2002;Vršanský & Aristov 2014;Vršanský & Bechly 2015).…”

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Taxonomic diversity of cockroach assemblages (Blattaria, Insecta) of the Aptian Crato Formation (Cretaceous, NE Brazil)

Lee¹

2016

Geologica Carpathica

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A comprehensive revision of 981 specimens of fossil cockroaches from the Lower Cretaceous laminated limestones of the Crato Formation of Northeast Brazil shows that they belong to eleven taxa, including Piniblattella limai, P. magna sp. n., Perlucipecta santanensis. sp. n., Raptoblatta waddingtonae; Ocelloblattula santanensis sp. n., Elisama brevis (= E. americana, syn.n.), E. hindwingnii sp. n., Ponopterix axelrodi (= P. maxima syn.n.), Umenopterix burkhardi comb. n., and Cratovitisma oldreadi (Umenocoleidae = Cratovitismidae syn.n. = Ponopterixidae syn.n.). The family Ectobiidae is numerically most abundant in the assemblage of cockroaches of the Crato Formation (83 % of cockroaches), followed by Blattulidae (13 %) and Umenocoleidae (4 %). 79.2 % of specimens are complete and fully articulated. Members of the family Alienopteridae are probably also present. Representatives of a relatively common Mesozoic superfamily Caloblattinoidea are missing. With the exception of the endemic genera Cratovitisma and Raptoblatta and the exclusively Gondwanan genus Ocelloblattula, all other genera were cosmopolitan. Taxonomic richness of cockroaches of the Crato Formation is thus rather low, and consists of geologically longranging and geographically-widespread genera, genera restricted to Gondwana, and short-ranging endemic genera found in the Crato Formation only.

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The most ancient roach (Blattodea): a new genus and species from the earliest Late Carboniferous (Namurian) of China, with a discussion of the phylomorphogeny of early blattids

Cited by 63 publications

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A new, rare and distinctive species of Panorthoptera (Insecta, Archaeorthoptera) from the Upper Carboniferous of Xiaheyan (Ningxia, China)

A new, rare and distinctive species of Panorthoptera (Insecta, Archaeorthoptera) from the Upper Carboniferous of Xiaheyan (Ningxia, China)

Completely preserved cockroaches of the family Mesoblattinidae from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Liaoning Province, NE China)

Taxonomic diversity of cockroach assemblages (Blattaria, Insecta) of the Aptian Crato Formation (Cretaceous, NE Brazil)

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