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SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 4, Pages 619-632Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12076
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We revise the type material of the enigmatic fossil insect Carbotriplura kukalovaeKluge, 1996 from the Pennsylvanian of the Czech Republic. Multiple errors in the original description are documented and corrected. C.kukalovae is regarded as a possible transitional fossil link between Zygentoma and Pterygota. Carbotriplurida is therefore elevated to ordinal rank and considered as putative fossil sister group of Pterygota. The paranotal theory of the origin of insect wings and the parachute theory of origin of insect flight are briefly discussed and further corroborated. Testajapyx thomasi from the Pennsylvanian of Mazon Creek is tentatively considered as Dermaptera rather than Diplura.
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