The first ‘ Grylloblattida’ of the family Liomopteridae from the Middle Permian in the Onder Karoo, South Africa (Insecta: Polyneoptera)

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Cawood, Rebecca, Nel, Andre, Garrouste, Romain, Moyo, Sydney, Villet, Martin H., Prevec, Rose (2022): The first ‘ Grylloblattida’ of the family Liomopteridae from the Middle Permian in the Onder Karoo, South Africa (Insecta: Polyneoptera). Comptes Rendus Palevol 21 (22): 451-461, DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2022v21a22, URL: doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2022v21a22 ABSTRACT Here we describe a new genus and four new species of the extinct ‘Grylloblattida’: Liomopteridae Sellards, 1909: Liomopterum connexus Cawood & Nel, n. sp., Liomopterum daenerys Cawood & Nel, n. sp., Colubrosopterum karooensis Cawood & Nel, n. gen., n. sp., and Paraliomopterum sp.

The fossil wings were collected from a new Middle Permian locality near Sutherland, Northern Cape, South Africa, with the horizon close to the Ecca-Beaufort Group contact in the southern Karoo Basin.