Insecta - Blattodea - Blattidae

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1921. Die Insektenreste aus dem Lutetien von Messel bei Darmstadt. Abhandlungen der Hessischen geologischen Landesanstalt zu Darmstadt 7:2-15

Belongs to Periplaneta according to F. Meunier 1921

Sister taxa: Periplaneta eocaenica, Periplaneta houlberti, Periplaneta hylecoeta, Periplaneta lacera, Periplaneta sphodra

Type specimen: 587, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Museum Darmstadt Collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.

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Average measurements (in mm): body length 40.0, tegmen 35.0 x 19.0