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Extinct order of earwigs

Protelytroptera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Cohort: Polyneoptera
Order: †Protelytroptera
Tillyard, 1931
Families
Synonyms
  • Protocoleoptera Tillyard, 1924
  • Paracoleoptera Laurentiaux, 1953
  • Skleroptera Kirejtshuk and Nel, 2013
A phylogeny of Dermaptera and related groups

Protelytroptera is an extinct order of insects thought to be a stem group from which the modern Dermaptera evolved. These insects, which resemble modern Blattodea, or cockroaches, are known from the Permian of North America, Europe and Australia, from the fossils of their shell-like forewings and the large, unequal anal fan. None of their fossils are known from the Triassic, when the morphological changes from Protelytroptera to Dermaptera presumably took place.

References

  1. ^ "Protelytroptera". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
  2. Carpenter, F.M.; Kukalová, J. (December 1964). "The Structure of the Protelytroptera, With Description of a New Genus From Permian Strata of Moravi". Psyche. 71 (4) (published March 6, 1965): 183–197. doi:10.1155/1964/41528.
  3. ^ Kukalová, J. (June 1966). "Protelytroptera From the Upper Permian of Australia, With a Discussion of the Protocoleoptera and Paracoleoptera". Psyche. 73 (2) (published October 21, 1966): 89–111. doi:10.1155/1966/93549.
  4. Kukalová-Peck, J. (1987). "A Substitute Name for the Extinct Genus Stenelytron Kukalová (Protelytroptera)". Psyche. 94 (3–4) (published July 25, 1988): 339. doi:10.1155/1987/17543.
  5. Fabian Haas (18 July 1996). "Dermaptera — Earwigs". Tree of Life web project. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
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Amphiesmenoptera
  • Four most speciose orders are marked in bold
  • Italic are paraphyletic groups
  • Based on Sasaki et al. (2013)
Extinct
Taxon identifiers
Protelytroptera


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