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Balatronis  Smídová and Lei, 2017
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1261259

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderPolyneoptera   
                               OrderBlattodea Latreille, 1810 – cockroaches, termites  
                                  SuperfamilyBlattoidea Latreille, 1810  
                                     FamilyBlattidae Latreille, 1810 incertae sedis – American cockroaches, oriental cockroaches  
                                        GenusBalatronis Smídová and Lei, 2017  
    Direct Children:  
                                           SpeciesBalatronis cretacea Smídová and Lei, 2017  
                                           SpeciesBalatronis libanensis Sendi and Azar, 2017  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Qiu, Lu (Clyde Qiu), Yu-Chao Liu, Zong-Qing Wang, and Yan-Li Che   
  Publication Date: 2020   
  Article/Chapter Title: The first blattid cockroach (Dictyoptera: Blattodea) in Cretaceous amber and the reconsideration of purported Blattidae   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Cretaceous Research, vol. 109, 104359   
  Page(s): 1-5   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0195-6671   
  Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104359   
  Reference for: Balatronis   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Sendi, Hemen, and Dany Azar   
  Publication Date: 2017   
  Article/Chapter Title: New aposematic and presumably repellent bark cockroach from Lebanese amber   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Cretaceous Research, vol. 72   
  Page(s): 13-17   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0195-6671   
  Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2016.11.013   
  Reference for: Balatronis   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Smídová, Lucia, and Xiaojie Lei   
  Publication Date: 2017   
  Article/Chapter Title: The earliest amber-recorded type cockroach family was aposematic (Blattaria: Blattidae)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Cretaceous Research, vol. 72   
  Page(s): 189-199   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0195-6671   
  Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.01.008   
  Reference for: original description   
       

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  Comment: Extinct taxon in Burmese amber  
 

 

    


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