Abstract
New family, genus, and species of the primitive Embioptera (Rasnalexiidae fam. n., Rasnalexia rasnitsyni gen. et sp. n.) are described from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan. A new variant of higher classification of the order Embioptera is considered, in which no suborders are distinguished and all the more or less sustainably proved recent and extinct families are distributed over 2 infraorders and 3 (actually 2—Editor) superfamilies: the infraorder Brachyphyllophagidea Rasnitsyn, 2000, stat. n. with the families Rasnalexiidae, Brachyphyllophagidae Rasnitsyn, 2000 (Jurassic), and possibly Gallophasmatidae Nel et al., 2010 (Eocene); the infraorder Embiidea Burmeister, 1839 with the superfamily Alexarasnioidea Gorochov, 2011, stat. n. (= suborder Palembiodea Shcherbakov, 2015, syn. n.) including only one family, Alexarasniidae Gorochov, 2011 (Upper Permian and Triassic), and the superfamily Embioidea Burmeister, 1839 (= suborder Euembiodea Shcherbakov, 2015, syn. n.) including all the recent families of Embioptera and probably also the fossil families Sinembiidae Huang et Nel, 2009 (Jurassic) and Sorellembiidae Engel et Grimaldi, 2006 (Cretaceous).
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I am grateful to my colleagues from the Laboratory of Arthropods, Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) for the possibility of studying the collection of orthopteroid insects.
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This work was carried out within the framework of State research assignment AAAA-A19-119082990107-3.
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Gorochov, A.V. New Family, Genus and Species of the Primitive Embioptera from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and Remarks on the Classification of this Order. Entmol. Rev. 101, 837–845 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873821060087
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