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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Extinct genus of insects}}<br />
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| fossil_range = {{fossilrange/linked|Albian|Cenomanian}}<br />
| image = Alienopterus.png<br />
| image_caption = Artistic restoration<br />
| taxon = Alienopterus<br />
| authority = Bai et al., 2016<br />
| type_species = ''Alienopterus brachyelytrus''<br />
| type_species_authority = Bai et al., 2016<br />
| subdivision_ranks = Species<br />
| subdivision = <br />
*{{extinct}}''A. brachyelytrus'' <small>Bai et al., 2016</small><br />
*{{extinct}}''A. imposter'' <small>Vršanský et al., 2025</small><br />
| synonyms = *{{extinct}}''[[Aethiocarenus]]''?<ref>{{cite journal | first1 = Marie K. | last1 = Hörnig | first2 = Joachim T. | last2 = Haug | first3 = Carolin | last3 = Haug | year = 2017 | title = An exceptionally preserved 110 million years old praying mantis provides new insights into the predatory behavior of early mantodeans | journal = PeerJ | doi = 10.7717/peerj.3605 | pmc = 5527957 | pmid=28761789 | volume=5 | article-number=e3605 | doi-access = free }}</ref> <small>[[George Poinar Jr.|Poinar]] & Brown, 2017</small><br />
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'''''Alienopterus''''' is an [[extinct]] genus of [[insect]]s from the [[Cretaceous]] period of [[Southeast|Southeast Asia]] and [[East Asia]]. The type species '''''A. brachyelytrus''''' was described from the [[Burmese amber]] ([[Cenomanian]]) of Myanmar, while the other species '''''A. imposter''''' was described from the [[Jinju Formation]] ([[Albian]]) of South Korea.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vršanský |first1=Peter |last2=Lee |first2=Soo Bin |last3=Sohn |first3=Jae-Cheon |last4=Vršanská |first4=Lucia |last5=Jang |first5=Jun-Hyeok |last6=Nam |first6=Gi Soo |title=Jinju cockroaches |journal=Amba projekty |date=May 15, 2025 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=1-151 |url=https://geo.sav.sk/files/vrsansky/VrsanskyEtAl_2025.pdf}}</ref> It was the first known member of the [[order (biology)|order]] [[Alienoptera]] until 2018, when the second and third members of the order, ''[[Caputoraptor]] elegans'', and ''[[Alienopterella]] stigmatica'' were described.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Ming Bai |author2=Rolf Georg Beutel |author3=Weiwei Zhang |author4=Shuo Wang |author5=Marie Hörnig |author6=Carsten Gröhn |author7=Evgeny Yan |author8=Xingke Yang |author9=Benjamin Wipfler |year=2018 |title=A new Cretaceous insect with a unique cephalo-thoracic scissor device |journal=Current Biology |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=438–443.e1 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.031 |pmid=29395923|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Kočárek2018">{{cite journal|last1=Kočárek|first1=Petr|title=Alienopterella stigmatica gen. et sp. nov.: the second known species and specimen of Alienoptera extends knowledge about this Cretaceous order (Insecta: Polyneoptera)|journal=Journal of Systematic Palaeontology|year=2018|pages=1–10|issn=1477-2019|doi=10.1080/14772019.2018.1440440|volume=17|issue=6|s2cid=90147082}}</ref> ''A. brachyelytrus'' has characters that are shared with [[cockroach]]es and mantids and is thought to represent either the [[sister taxon]], or an ancestor to [[mantis|mantids]].<ref name=desc>{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.gr.2016.02.002|title=†Alienoptera — A new insect order in the roach–mantodean twilight zone|journal=Gondwana Research|volume=39|pages=317–326|year=2016|last1=Bai|first1=Ming|last2=Beutel|first2=Rolf Georg|last3=Klass|first3=Klaus-Dieter|last4=Zhang|first4=Weiwei|last5=Yang|first5=Xingke|last6=Wipfler|first6=Benjamin}}</ref><br />
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''Alienopterus'' has shortened forewings and functional hindwings capable of flight that are attached to pads as in the Mantophasmatodea. The foreleg has a femoral brush which is a characteristic of Mantodea. The mouth points downward from the body axis and has biting mouthparts suggestive of a predator. The antenna is long and there are large compound eyes as well as three ocelli on the head (which is never found in the Blattodea).<ref name=desc /><br />
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==See also==<br />
* ''[[Manipulator (insect)|Manipulator]]'', an extinct cockroach that have characters similar to mantids<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Prehistoric insect genera]]<br />
[[Category:Burmese amber]]<br />
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 2016]]<br />
[[Category:Cenomanian life]]<br />
[[Category:Dictyoptera]]<br />
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