Table 1

Extant and fossil taxa used in this study.

Taxon

Blattodea Brunner, 1882

Leucophaea maderae (Fabricius, 1775)

Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758)

Polyphaga aegyptiaca (Linnaeus, 1758)

Perlodidae

Isoperla obscura (Zetterstedt, 1840)

Dermaptera Kirby, 1815

Bellodermatidae fam. nov

Belloderma arcuata gen. et sp. nov

Dermapteridae Vishniakova, 1980

Dermapteron incertaes (Martynov, 1925)

Jurassimedeola orientalis (Zhang, 2002)

Turanovia incompleta (Vishnyakova, 1980)

Sinopalaeodermata neimonggolensis (Zhang, 2002)

Forficulidae Latreille, 1810

*Forficula auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758)

*Anechura bipunctata (Fabrcius, 1781)

Protodiplatyidae Martynov, 1925

Archidermapteron martynova (Vishnyakova, 1980)

Protodiplatys fortis (Martynov, 1925)

Asiodiplatys speciousus (Vishnyakova, 1980)

Longicerciata mesozoica (Zhang, 1994)

Microdiplatys campodeiformis (Vishnyakova, 1980)

Pygidicranidae Verhoeff, 1902

*Archaeosoma serratum (Zhang, 1994)

Semenoviolidae Vishniakova, 1980

Semenoviola obliquotruncata (Martynov, 1925)

Semenovioloides capitatus (Vishnyakova, 1980)

Turanodermatidae Engel, 2003

Turanoderma sepultum (Vishnyakova, 1980)

*: only present in matrix of Table 3.

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