Darekia is an extinct genus of winged insects that existed in what is now Poland, during the upper Carboniferous period. It is a monotypic genus, including only the species Darekia sanguinea. Darekia is considered a member of the extinct order Paoliida, a group that historically had controversial affinities and composition but have been resolved as the sister group of Dictyoptera by recent studies.[3][4] The genus and species were described by Jakub Prokop, Wieslaw Krzemiński, Ewa Krzemińska, and Dariusz Wojciechowski in 2012.[1]

Darekia
Temporal range: Westphalian Age, Carboniferous Period
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Paoliida
Family: Paoliidae
Genus: Darekia
Prokop et al., 2012
Species:
D. sanguinea
Binomial name
Darekia sanguinea
Prokop et al., 2012[1][2]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Prokop, J.; Krzemiński, W.; Krzemińska, E.; Wojciechowski, D. (2012). "Paoliida, a putative stem-group of winged insects: Morphology of new taxa from the Upper Carboniferous of Poland". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 57: 161–173. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0064.
  2. ^ "Darekia". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
  3. ^ Jakub Prokop; Wieslaw Krzemiński; Ewa Krzemińska; Thomas Hörnschemeyer; Jan-Michael Ilger; Carsten Brauckmann; Philippe Grandcolas; André Nel (2014). "Late Palaeozoic Paoliida is the sister group of Dictyoptera (Insecta: Neoptera)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (5): 601–622. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.823468. S2CID 84407734.
  4. ^ Legendre, Frédéric; Nel, André; Svenson, Gavin J.; Robillard, Tony; Pellens, Roseli; Grandcolas, Philippe; Escriva, Hector (22 July 2015). "Phylogeny of Dictyoptera: Dating the Origin of Cockroaches, Praying Mantises and Termites with Molecular Data and Controlled Fossil Evidence". PLOS ONE. 10 (7): e0130127. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1030127L. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130127. PMC 4511787. PMID 26200914.