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Grylloblattida: Lemmatophorina: Lemmatophoridae: Paraprisca fragilis (Sellards) 1909 newly recorded from Oklahoma Wellington Formation

Paraprisca fragilis specimen collected by Joseph Hall in 2004 from Billlings 3 loaclity, Noble County, OK

First record of the lemmatophorid, Paraprisca fragilis (Sellards) 1909 from the Oklahoma Wellington Formation, originally described by Sellards from the Elmo, Kansas beds.  The background drawing is Frank Carpenter's restoration (Treatise volumes, 1992) of the insect.

Left:  Part, collected by Joseph Hall, 2004.  Left Below, Counterpart.

Identified May 2005 by Roy J. Beckemeyer.

 

 

 

Paraprisca fragilis from Noble County, Oklahoma - Collected by Joseph Hall in 2004, identified by Roy Beckemeyer, 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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