Alienoptera

Alienoptera Temporal range: Early Cretaceous-Eocene, Albian–Middle Eocene PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Euarthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Superorder:	Dictyoptera
Order:	†Alienoptera Bai et al, 2016
Type genus
†Alienopterus Bai et al, 2016
Genera
†Aethiocarenus? †Alienopterella †Alienopterix †Alienopterus †Apiblatta †Caputoraptor †Chimaeroblattina †Grant †Meilia †Teyia †Vcelesvab

Alienoptera is an extinct order of insects. It is part of Dictyoptera making it closely related to cockroaches and mantises. The majority of known members of the group are known from the Cenomanian aged amber from Myanmar;^[1][2][3][4]; however, the group also includes two genera (Apiblatta and Vcelesvab) from the Albian Crato Formation (Brazil), as well as two genera (Chimaeroblattina and Grant) from the middle Eocene Green River Formation (Colorado, United States).^[4]

Vršanský et al. (2018) did not consider Alienoptera to be a separate insect order; instead, the authors assigned the family Alienopteridae to the order Blattaria and to the superfamily Umenocoleoidea.^[4]

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