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A Late Permian fauna of grylloblattid insects (Insecta; Grylloblattida) from the KwaZulu-Natal Province (South Africa) is considered. New taxa, Liomopterites ulterior sp. nov. and L. meridionalis sp. nov. (family Liomopteridae); Normandienoptera serotina gen. et sp. nov. and Afrogrylloblattus disputabilis gen. et sp. nov. (Skaliciidae), are described. Mioloptera stuckenbergi Riek, 1973 and Mioloptoides andrei Riek, 1976 of the family Liomopteridae are redescribed.
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Original Russian Text © D.S. Aristov, M.B. Mostovski, 2013, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2013, No. 5, pp. 37–43.
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Aristov, D.S., Mostovski, M.B. Gryllolattids (Insecta, Grylloblattida) from the Upper Permian of South Africa. Paleontol. J. 47, 495–502 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030113050031
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