Zdenekia is a genus of extinct winged insects from the Upper Carboniferous period. It contains the species Z. grandis from the Czech Republic,[1] Z. occidentalis from Belgium,[1] and Z. silesiensis from Poland.[2] Zdenekia is considered a member of the extinct order Paoliida, a group that historically had controversial affinities and composition but have been resolved as the sister group of Dictyoptera by recent studies.[3][4]

Zdenekia
Temporal range: Upper Carboniferous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Paoliida
Family: Paoliidae
Genus: Zdenekia
Kukalová, 1958
Type species
Zdenekia grandis
Kukalová, 1958
Species
  • Z. grandis Kukalová, 1958
  • Z. occidentalis Laurentiaux−Vieira & Laurentiaux, 1986
  • Z. silesiensis Prokop et al., 2012

References edit

  1. ^ a b Jakub Prokop & André Nel (2007). "An enigmatic Palaeozoic stem-group: Paoliida, designation of new taxa from the Upper Carboniferous of the Czech Republic (Insecta: Paoliidae, Katerinkidae fam. n.)" (PDF). African Invertebrates. 48 (1): 77–86.
  2. ^ Jakub Prokop; Wiesław Krzemiński; Ewa Krzemińska & Dariusz Wojciechowski (2012). "Paoliida, a putative stem-group of winged insects: morphology of new taxa from the Upper Carboniferous of Poland" (PDF proof). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 57: 161–173. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0064.
  3. ^ Jakub Prokop; Wieslaw Krzemiński; Ewa Krzemińska; Thomas Hörnschemeyer; Jan-Michael Ilger; Carsten Brauckmann; Philippe Grandcolas; André Nel (2014). "Late Palaeozoic Paoliida is the sister group of Dictyoptera (Insecta: Neoptera)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (5): 601–622. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.823468. S2CID 84407734.
  4. ^ Legendre, Frédéric; Nel, André; Svenson, Gavin J.; Robillard, Tony; Pellens, Roseli; Grandcolas, Philippe; Escriva, Hector (22 July 2015). "Phylogeny of Dictyoptera: Dating the Origin of Cockroaches, Praying Mantises and Termites with Molecular Data and Controlled Fossil Evidence". PLOS ONE. 10 (7): e0130127. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1030127L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130127. PMC 4511787. PMID 26200914.