Liberiblattinidae

Liberiblattinidae
Temporal range: Toarcian–Santonian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: †Liberiblattinidae
Vršanský 2002
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Liberiblattinidae is an extinct family of cockroaches known from the Jurassic to Cretaceous. Some taxa, like Cryptoblatta and Hydrokhoohydra, are suggested to be semiaquatic.[1] Spongistoma is suggested to be a nectarivore due to its unique sucking/sponging "proboscis" mouthparts.[2] Some authors have suggested that the family is ancestral to Mantodea.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Sendi, Hemen; Hinkelman, Jan; Vršanská, Lucia; Kúdelová, Tatiana; Kúdela, Matúš; Zuber, Marcus; van de Kamp, Thomas; Vršanský, Peter (2020-01-29). "Roach nectarivory, gymnosperm and earliest flower pollination evidence from Cretaceous ambers". Biologia. 75 (10): 1613–1630. doi:10.2478/s11756-019-00412-x. ISSN 0006-3088. S2CID 210938183.
  3. ^ Vršanský, Peter; Bechly, Günter (2015-04-01). "New predatory cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria: Manipulatoridae fam.n.) from the Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber". Geologica Carpathica. 66 (2): 133–138. doi:10.1515/geoca-2015-0015. ISSN 1336-8052.