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Issue: Vol. 3635 No. 2: 26 Mar. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-03-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3635.2.2
Page range: 117–126
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Paleocene origin of the cockroach families Blaberidae and Corydiidae: Evidence from Amur River region of Russia

Arthropoda Laboratory of the Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 123, 117868 Moscow, Russia Geological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravska cesta 9, P.O.BOX 106, 840 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravska cesta 9, 845 06 Bratislava, Slovakia Department of Biology, Faculty of Education, Comenius University, Moskovská 3, Bratislava, 813 34, Slovakia
Geological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravska cesta 9, P.O.BOX 106, 840 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far East Branch, Prosp. 100-letiya 159, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia
Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far East Branch, Prosp. 100-letiya 159, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia
Blattodea fossil insects fossil cockroaches Tertiary Blaberidae Corydiidae Morphna Ergaula

Abstract

Morphna paleo sp. n., the earliest winged representative of any living cockroach genus and the earliest representative of the family Blaberidae, is described from the Danian Arkhara-Boguchan coal mine in the Amur River region (Russian Far East). The branched Sc and A suggest Ectobiidae (=Blattellidae) probably is not the ancestral family because Blaberidae were derived directly from the extinct family Mesoblattindae. The associated Danian locality Belaya Gora yielded Ergaula stonebut sp. n., the earliest record of the family Corydiidae. Both species belong to genera codominant in the Messel locality, thus validating their dominance in early Cenozoic assemblages.

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