Liberiblattinidae
{{Short description|Extinct family of cockroaches}}
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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.{{Cite journal|last1=Sendi|first1=Hemen|last2=Hinkelman|first2=Jan|last3=Vršanská|first3=Lucia|last4=Kúdelová|first4=Tatiana|last5=Kúdela|first5=Matúš|last6=Zuber|first6=Marcus|last7=van de Kamp|first7=Thomas|last8=Vršanský|first8=Peter|date=2020-01-29|title=Roach nectarivory, gymnosperm and earliest flower pollination evidence from Cretaceous ambers|url=http://link.springer.com/10.2478/s11756-019-00412-x|journal=Biologia|volume=75 |issue=10 |pages=1613–1630 |language=en|doi=10.2478/s11756-019-00412-x|s2cid=210938183|issn=0006-3088}} Some authors have suggested that the family is ancestral to Mantodea.{{Cite journal |last=Vršanský |first=Peter |last2=Bechly |first2=Günter |date=2015-04-01 |title=New predatory cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria: Manipulatoridae fam.n.) from the Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber |url=https://www.sav.sk/?lang=en&doc=journal-list&part=article_response_page&journal_article_no=11044 |journal=Geologica Carpathica |volume=66 |issue=2 |pages=133–138 |doi=10.1515/geoca-2015-0015 |issn=1336-8052|doi-access=free }}
Systematics
- †Cryptoblatta Sendi and Azar 2019 Lebanese amber, Barremian
- †Elisamoides Vršanský 2004 Cattamarra Coal Measures, Australia, Toarcian Shar-Teg, Mongolia, Tithonian
- †Entropia Vršanský et al. 2012 Daohugou, China, Callovian
- †Gurvanoblatta Vishnyakova 1986 Gurvan-Eren Formation, Mongolia, Aptian
- †Hydrokhoohydra Vršanský 2019 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian
- †Kazachiblattina Vršanský 2002 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian
- †Kurablattina Martin 2010 Cattamarra Coal Measures, Australia, Toarcian
- †Leptolythica Vršanský 2009, Charentese amber, France, Albian
- †Liberiblattina Vršanský 2002 Karabastau Formation, Kazakhstan, Callovian/Oxfordian
- †Spongistoma Sendi 2020 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
- †Stavba Vršanská and Vršanský 2019 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian
Indeterminate juveniles are also known from the Aptian Crato Formation of Brazil, the Aalenian Bakhar Formation of Mongolia,{{Cite journal|last1=Vršanský|first1=Peter|last2=Sendi|first2=Hemen|last3=Aristov|first3=Danil|last4=Bechly|first4=Günter|last5=Müller|first5=Patrick|last6=Ellenberger|first6=Sieghard|last7=Azar|first7=Dany|last8=Ueda|first8=Kyoichiro|last9=Barna|first9=Peter|last10=Garcia|first10=Thierry|date=April 2019|title=Ancient roaches further exemplify 'no land return' in aquatic insects|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1342937X18302971|journal=Gondwana Research|language=en|volume=68|pages=22–33|doi=10.1016/j.gr.2018.10.020|s2cid=135284778 }} and the Santonian Taimyr amber of Russia.{{Cite journal|last=Vršanský|first=Peter|date=2019-06-24|title=Santonian cockroaches from Yantardakh amber (Russia: Taimyr) differ in dominance|url=https://www.mapress.com/j/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.2.3.15|journal=Palaeoentomology|volume=2|issue=3|pages=297–307|doi=10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.3.15|s2cid=198345401 |issn=2624-2834}}