Protelytroptera

Protelytroptera is an extinct order of insects thought to be a stem group from which the modern Dermaptera evolved. These insects, which resemble modern Blattodea, or cockroaches, are known from the Permian of North America, Europe and Australia, from the fossils of their shell-like forewings and the large, unequal anal fan. None of their fossils are known from the Triassic, when the morphological changes from Protelytroptera to Dermaptera presumably took place.^[5]

Protelytroptera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Cohort:	Polyneoptera
Order:	†Protelytroptera Tillyard, 1931
Families[1][2][3][4]
Apachelytridae Archelytridae Bardocoleidae Dermelytridae Elytroneuridae Labidelytridae Megelytridae Permelytridae Permophilidae Planelytridae Protelytridae Protocoleidae Stephanastidae
Synonyms[3][1]
Protocoleoptera Tillyard, 1924 Paracoleoptera Laurentiaux, 1953 Skleroptera Kirejtshuk and Nel, 2013

A phylogeny of Dermaptera and related groups

References

1. "Protelytroptera". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
2. Carpenter, F.M.; Kukalová, J. (December 1964). "The Structure of the Protelytroptera, With Description of a New Genus From Permian Strata of Moravi". Psyche. 71 (4) (published March 6, 1965): 183–197. doi:10.1155/1964/41528.
3. Kukalová, J. (June 1966). "Protelytroptera From the Upper Permian of Australia, With a Discussion of the Protocoleoptera and Paracoleoptera". Psyche. 73 (2) (published October 21, 1966): 89–111. doi:10.1155/1966/93549.
4. Kukalová-Peck, J. (1987). "A Substitute Name for the Extinct Genus Stenelytron Kukalová (Protelytroptera)". Psyche. 94 (3–4) (published July 25, 1988): 339. doi:10.1155/1987/17543.
5. Fabian Haas, Dermaptera — Earwigs, Tree of Life web project