Alienopteridae

Aethiocarenus burmanicus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Alienoptera

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Scotokaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Supercohort: Polyneoptera Cohort: Dictyoptera Ordo: †Alienoptera

Familia: †Alienopteridae
Subfamiliae (after Vršanský et al., 2021): †Alienopterinae – †Alienopterixinae – †Cratovitisminae – †Vitisminae
Genera (13): †Aethiocarenus – †Alienopterella – †Alienopterix – †Alienopterus – †Apiblatta – †Caputoraptor – †Chimaeroblattina – †Eminespina – †Enervipraeala – †Grant – †Meilia – †Nadveruzenie – †Teyia – †Vcelesvab – ...

Name

Alienopteridae Bai et al., 2016

Synonyms

• Aethiocarenidae Poinar & Brown, 2017 [syn.: Vršanský, et al., 2018]

References

Primary 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. 
• 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., Bechly, G., Zhang, Q., Jarzembowski, E.A., Mlynský, T., Šmídová, L., Barna, P., Kúdela, M., Aristov, D., Bigalk, S., Krogmann, L., Li, L., Zhang, Q., Zhang, H., Ellenberger, S., Müller, P., Gröhn, C., Xia, F., Ueda, K., Vďačný, P., Valaška, D., Vršanská, L. & Wang, B. 2018. Batesian insect-insect mimicry-related explosive radiation of ancient alienopterid cockroaches. Biologia 73(10): 987–1006. DOI: 10.2478/s11756-018-0117-3 . PDF. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Chen, X-Y., Zhang, H-C. & Shi, X-X. 2021. A new species and genus of Alienopteridae (Blattodea) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Zootaxa 4941(4): 580–586. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.4.7 Reference page. 
• Szabó, M., Szabó, P., Kóbor, P. & Ősi, A. 2023. Alienopterix santonicus sp. n., a metallic cockroach from the Late Cretaceous ajkaite amber (Bakony Mts, western Hungary) documents Alienopteridae within the Mesozoic Laurasia. Biologia 78: 1701–1712 . DOI: 10.1007/s11756-022-01265-7 Reference page. 
• Vršanský, P., Sendi, H., Hinkelman, J. & Hain, M. 2021. Alienopterix Mlynský et al., 2018 complex in North Myanmar amber supports Umenocoleoidea/ae status. Biologia 76(8): 2207–2224. DOI: 10.1007/s11756-021-00689-x . Reference page. 

Links

• Alienopteridae – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.