Liberiblattinidae is an extinct family of cockroaches known from the Jurassic to Cretaceous. Some taxa, like Cryptoblatta and Hydrokhoohydra, are suggested to be semiaquatic. Spongistoma is suggested to be a nectarivore due to its unique sucking/sponging "proboscis" mouthparts. Some authors have suggested that the family is ancestral to Mantodea.
Systematics
Based on
- â Cryptoblatta <small>Sendi and Azar 2019</small> Lebanese amber, Barremian
- â Elisamoides <small>VrÃ
¡anský 2004</small> Cattamarra Coal Measures, Australia, Toarcian Shar-Teg, Mongolia, Tithonian
- â Entropia <small>VrÃ
¡anský et al. 2012</small> Daohugou, China, Callovian
- â Gurvanoblatta <small>Vishnyakova 1986</small> Gurvan-Eren Formation, Mongolia, Aptian
- â Hydrokhoohydra <small>VrÃ
¡anský 2019</small> Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian
- â Kazachiblattina <small>VrÃ
¡anský 2002</small> Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian
- â Kurablattina <small>Martin 2010</small> Cattamarra Coal Measures, Australia, Toarcian
- â Leptolythica <small>VrÃ
¡anský 2009</small>, Charentese amber, France, Albian
- â Liberiblattina <small>VrÃ
¡anský 2002</small> Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian
- â Spongistoma <small>Sendi 2020</small> Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- â Stavba <small>VrÃ
¡anská and VrÃ
¡anský 2019</small> Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
Indeterminate juveniles are also known from the Aptian Crato Formation of Brazil, the Aalenian Bakhar Formation of Mongolia, and the Santonian Taimyr amber of Russia.
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