Insecta - Blattaria - Caloblattinidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 201889

Alternative combination: Mesoblattina geikiei

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1886. A review of Mesozoic cockroaches. Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History 3:439-484

Belongs to Rhipidoblattina according to P. Vrsansky and J. Ansorge 2007

Sister taxa: Rhipidoblattina (Canaliblatta), Rhipidoblattina angustata, Rhipidoblattina beipiaoensis, Rhipidoblattina boya, Rhipidoblattina bucklandi, Rhipidoblattina chichengensis, Rhipidoblattina decoris, Rhipidoblattina elegans, Rhipidoblattina emacerata, Rhipidoblattina forticrusa, Rhipidoblattina fuxinensis, Rhipidoblattina gurvaniensis, Rhipidoblattina jilinensis, Rhipidoblattina kisylkiensis, Rhipidoblattina lacunata, Rhipidoblattina lanceolata, Rhipidoblattina latior, Rhipidoblattina liaoningensis, Rhipidoblattina liugouensis, Rhipidoblattina lonchopteris, Rhipidoblattina longa, Rhipidoblattina longa, Rhipidoblattina maculata, Rhipidoblattina magna, Rhipidoblattina mayingziensis, Rhipidoblattina nanligezhuangensis, Rhipidoblattina radipinguis, Rhipidoblattina shulanensis, Rhipidoblattina spathulata, Rhipidoblattina tulunensis

Type specimen: NHM I 10620, a forewing. Its type locality is Brown's Wood, Warwickshire, which is in a Rhaetian marine horizon in the United Kingdom.

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Average measurements (in mm): forewing length 13.7