Zdenekia

Zdenekia
Temporal range: Upper Carboniferous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
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

Zdenekia is a genus of extinct winged insects from the Upper Carboniferous period. It contains the species Z. grandis from the Czech Republic, Z. occidentalis from Belgium, and Z. silesiensis from Poland. 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.

References

  1. 1 2 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). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 57: 161–173. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0064. Archived from the original (PDF proof) on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  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.