Sociala

Sociala
Temporal range: Albian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Socialidae
Genus: Sociala
Vršanský, 2010
Species: S. perlucida
Binomial name
Sociala perlucida
Vršanský, 2010

Sociala is an extinct genus of cockroach which existed in what is now France during the early Cretaceous period (Albian age).[1] It was named by Peter Vršanský in 2010, and the type species is Sociala perlucida.[1]

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Vršanský (2010).[1]

 Dictyoptera 

Phyloblattidae

Cryptocercidae

Polyphagidae

Rest living Blattodea

Liberiblattinidae

Liberiblattinidae

Mantida

Eadiidae

Liberiblattinidae

Liberiblattinidae

Skokidae

Mastotermitidae

Rest living Isoptera

Socialidae

References

  1. 1 2 3 Peter Vršanský (2010). "Cockroach as the Earliest Eusocial Animal". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 793–808. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00261.x.


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