Sociala

Sociala
Temporal range: Albian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Blattodea
Family: Socialidae
Genus: Sociala
Vršanský, 2010
Species: S. perlucida
Binomial name
Sociala perlucida
Vršanský, 2010

Sociala is an extinct genus of cockroach which existed in what is now France during the early Cretaceous period (Albian age).[1] It was named by Peter Vršanský in 2010, and the type species is Sociala perlucida.[1]

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Vršanský (2010).[1]

 Dictyoptera 

Phyloblattidae





Cryptocercidae




Polyphagidae



Rest living Blattodea






Liberiblattinidae




Liberiblattinidae





Mantida



Eadiidae





Liberiblattinidae



Liberiblattinidae



Skokidae




Mastotermitidae




Rest living Isoptera



Socialidae










References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Peter Vršanský (2010). "Cockroach as the Earliest Eusocial Animal". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition 84 (4): 793–808. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00261.x.