Elmopterum rotundum Bethoux & Beckemeyer, 2007

Aristov, Daniil S. & Storozhenko, Sergey Yu., 2011, Review of the Permian family Permulidae nomen novum pro Aliculidae Storozhenko, 1997 (Grylloblattida), ZooKeys 130, pp. 111-130 : 117

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.130.1489

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scientific name

Elmopterum rotundum Bethoux & Beckemeyer, 2007
status

 

Elmopterum rotundum Bethoux & Beckemeyer, 2007 View in CoL

Elmopterum rotundum Béthoux and Beckemeyer 2007: 55, fig. 5 (holotype - positive and negative imprints of an incomplete individual; MCZ 7468 and MCZ 7469; deposited in the Museum Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, USA; not examined).

Horizon.

Leonardian Stage, Wellington Formation (the Lower Permian).

Locality.

Elmo locality, Kansas, USA.

Description.

Anterior margin of forewing weakly convex; SC reaching the apical one fifth of the wing; costal area as broad as intercubital one; RS distinctly separated from MA; MA simple or with two branches directed to the apex of wing; MP with three branches directed to the posterior margin of wing; CuA with two branches; cross-veins in almost all areas forming a double row of cells.

Measurements.

Length of forewing about 18 mm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Grylloblattodea

SubOrder

Protoperlina

Family

Permulidae

Genus

Elmopterum