genus
† Petropterix Vršanský, 2003
Type
† Petropterix mirabilis Vršanský, 2003 type species by original designation of † Petropterix Vršanský, 2003
Nomenclature (2)
- † Petropterix Vršanský, 2003: 19. (fossil)
type species by original designation † Petropterix mirabilis Vršanský, 2003
- † Petropterix Vršanský, 2003 (classified as † Ponopterixidae Nel, Prokop & Kirejtshuk, 2014) in Nel, Prokop, Grandcolas, Garrouste, Lapeyrie, Legendre, Anisyutkin & Kirejtshuk, 2014: 546. Classification
Nomenclature references (2)
- Nel, A., Prokop, J., Grandcolas, P., Garrouste, R., Lapeyrie, J., Legendre, F., Anisyutkin, L.N. & Kirejtshuk, A.G. (2014) The beetle-like Palaeozoic and Mesozoic roachoids of the so-called “umenocoleoid” lineage (Dictyoptera: Ponopterixidae fam. nov.). Comptes Rendus Palevol, 13(7), 545–554. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2014.05.002
- Vršanský, P. (2003) Umenocoleoidea—an amazing lineage of aberrant insects (Insecta, Blattaria). AMBA Projekty, 7(1), 1–32.
Descendants and synonyms
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| species | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
Petropterix is combined of Petron (Greek for rock), and pteron (Greek for wing). Also, the name is an allusion to my Siberian goddess Petra.