Darekia

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Darekia
Temporal range: Westphalian Age, Carboniferous Period
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Paoliida
Family: Paoliidae
Genus: Darekia
Prokop et al., 2012
Species:
D. sanguinea
Binomial name
Darekia sanguinea
Prokop et al., 2012 [1] [2]

Darekia is an extinct genus of winged insects that existed in what is now Poland, during the upper Carboniferous period. It is a monotypic genus, including only the species Darekia sanguinea. Darekia 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] The genus and species were described by Jakub Prokop, Wieslaw Krzemiński, Ewa Krzemińska, and Dariusz Wojciechowski in 2012. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Prokop, J.; Krzemiński, W.; Krzemińska, E.; Wojciechowski, D. (2012). "Paoliida, a putative stem-group of winged insects: Morphology of new taxa from the Upper Carboniferous of Poland". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 57: 161–173. doi: 10.4202/app.2010.0064 .
  2. "Darekia". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
  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.