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† Spinka Vršanský, Smidova & Barna, 2019

Type

type species by original designation of † Spinka Vršanský, Smidova & Barna, 2019

Nomenclature (3)

  • † Spinka Vršanský, Smidova & Barna, 2019 in Vršanský, Smidova, Sendi, Barna, Müller, Ellenberger, Wu, Ren, Lei, Azar, Surka, Su, Deng, Shen, Lv, Bao & Bechly, 2019: 68. (fossil)

    type species by original designation † Spinka fussa Vršanský, Smidova & Barna, 2019

  • † Spinka Vršanský, Smidova & Barna, 2019 (classified as Corydiidae Saussure, 1864) in Qiu, Liu, Wang & Che, 2020: 1. Classification
  • † Spinka Vršanský, Smidova & Barna, 2019 (classified as Corydioidea Saussure, 1864) in Smidova, 2021: 68. Classification

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Qiu, L., Liu, Y., Wang, Z.-Q. & Che, Y.-L. (2020) The first blattid cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattodea) in Cretaceous amber and the reconsideration of purported Blattidae. Cretaceous Research, 109(104359), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104359
  • Smidova, L. (2021) New genus and species of the families Olidae and Corydiidae (Corydioidea, Blattodea) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber. Palaeontographica, Abteilung A Palaeozoologie-Stratigraphie, 321(1-6), 61–70.
  • Vršanský, P., Smidova, L., Sendi, H., Barna, P., Müller, P., Ellenberger, S., Wu, H., Ren, X., Lei, X.J., Azar, D., Surka, J., Su, T., Deng, W., Shen, X., Lv, J., Bao, T. & Bechly, G. (2019) Parasitic cockroaches indicate complex states of earliest proved ants. Biologia, 74(1), 65–89. [2018] https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-018-0146-y

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Etymology:

“Spinka” (“špinka” is Slovak for small dirt; “spinká” is “is sleeping”, but “spinka” is also a paperclip) – refers to dirt and feces camouflage resting in amber.