奇翅目學名Alienoptera)是一類已滅絕的昆蟲,為網翅總目下的一個目級分類元,與蟑螂螳螂密切相關。 該目的大多數已知成員來自緬甸的森諾曼期琥珀,[1][2][3][4][5]然而,該目還包括來自Albian Crato組(巴西)的兩個屬(Apiblatta和Vcelesvab),以及兩個來自於中始新世綠河組(美國科羅拉多州)的屬(Chimaeroblattina和Grant)[4]

奇翅目
化石時期:阿爾布期始新世
Aethiocarenus英語Aethiocarenus,被認為是奇翅目物種的若蟲個體
科學分類 編輯
界: 動物界 Animalia
門: 節肢動物門 Arthropoda
綱: 昆蟲綱 Insecta
目: 奇翅目 Alienoptera
模式屬
奇翅蟲屬
Alienopterus
Bai, 2016

目前關於奇翅目是否應獨立成為一目尚有爭議。Vršanský等(2018)認為奇翅目的物種應歸於蜚蠊目玉門甲總科(Umenocoleoidea)之中。[4]

參考資料

  1. ^ Kočárek, Petr. Alienopterella stigmatica gen. et sp. nov.: the second known species and specimen of Alienoptera extends knowledge about this Cretaceous order (Insecta: Polyneoptera). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 2018: 1–10. ISSN 1477-2019. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1440440. 
  2. ^ Bai, Ming; Beutel, Rolf Georg; Klass, Klaus-Dieter; Zhang, Weiwei; Yang, Xingke; Wipfler, Benjamin. †Alienoptera — A new insect order in the roach–mantodean twilight zone. Gondwana Research. 2016, 39: 317. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2016.02.002. 
  3. ^ Ming Bai; Rolf Georg Beutel; Weiwei Zhang; Shuo Wang; Marie Hörnig; Carsten Gröhn; Evgeny Yan; Xingke Yang; Benjamin Wipfler. A new Cretaceous insect with a unique cephalo-thoracic scissor device. Current Biology. 2018, 28 (3): 438–443.e1. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.031. 
  4. ^ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Peter Vršanský; Günter Bechly; Qingqing Zhang; Edmund A. Jarzembowski; Tomáš Mlynský; Lucia Šmídová; Peter Barna; Matúš Kúdela; Danil Aristov; Sonia Bigalk; Lars Krogmann; Liqin Li; Qi Zhang; Haichun Zhang; Sieghard Ellenberger; Patrick Müller; Carsten Gröhn; Fangyuan Xia; Kyoichiro Ueda; Peter Vďačný; Daniel Valaška; Lucia Vršanská; Bo Wang. Batesian insect-insect mimicry-related explosive radiation of ancient alienopterid cockroaches. Biologia. 2018, 73 (10): 987–1006. doi:10.2478/s11756-018-0117-3. 
  5. ^ Jan Hinkelman. Earliest behavioral mimicry and possible food begging in a Mesozoic alienopterid pollinator. Biologia. 2019,. in press. doi:10.2478/s11756-019-00278-z.