Alienoptera

Aethiocarenus burmanicus

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Supercohort: Polyneoptera
Cohort: Dictyoptera
Ordo: †Alienoptera
Familiae: †Alienopteridae – †Umenocoleidae

Name

Alienoptera Bai et al., 2016

Synonyms

• Umenocoleoidea Chen & Tan, 1973 [superfamily]
• Aethiocarenodea Poinar & Brown, 2017

References

• Bai, M., Beutel, R.G., Klass, K.D., Zhang, W., Yang, X. & Wipfler, B. 2016. †Alienoptera — A new insect order in the roach–mantodean twilight zone. Gondwana Research 39: 317–326. DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2016.02.002 . Reference page. 
• Chen, S. & T'an, C.-C. 1973. A new family of Coleoptera from the Lower Cretaceous of Kansu. Acta Entomologica Sinica 16(2): 169–179. (in Chinese with English summary). Online. Reference page. 
• Poinar, G., Jr. & Brown, A.E. 2017. An exotic insect Aethiocarenus burmanicus gen. et sp. nov. (Aethiocarenodea ord. nov., Aethiocarenidae fam. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Cretaceous Research 72: 100–104. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.12.011 . Reference page. 
• Vršanský, P. 2003: Umenocoleoidea – an amazing lineage of aberrant insects (Insecta, Blattaria). Amba projekty, 7(1): 1–32.

Links

• Alienoptera – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.