Alienopteridae
Alienopteridae is an extinct family of in the cockroach superfamily Umenocoleoidea sister family to Umenocoleidae. The majority of the alienopterid genera are known from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber found in Myanmar; though an additional two genera are from the Albian Crato Formation, and a younger two genera are from the middle Eocene Green River Formation. Some taxa are have been suggested mimics of various hymenopterans, including bees and ants. However this was mostly rejected in another study. Some taxa were probably predators adapted to moving through dense foliage.
Vršanský et al. did not consider Alienoptera to be a separate insect order; instead, the authors assigned the family Alienopteridae to the order Blattaria and to the superfamily Umenocoleoidea as sister to Umenocoleidae. However, the term Alienoptera was retained by Wipfler et al..Genera
- Superfamily †Umenocoleoidea Chen & Tan, 1973
- *Family †Alienopteridae Bai et al., 2016
- ** †Aethiocarenus Poinar & Brown, 2016
- ** †Alienopterella Kočárek, 2018
- ** †Alienopterix Mlynský et al.' 2018
- ** †Alienopterus Bai et al. 2016
- ** †Apiblatta Barna & Bigalk, 2018
- ** †Caputoraptor Bai et al., 2018
- ** †Chimaeroblattina Barna, 2018
- ** †Formicamendax Hinkelman, 2019
- ** †Grant Aristov, 2018
- ** †Meilia Vršanský & Wang, 2018
- ** †Teyia Vršanský et al., 2018
