†Z. occidentalis Laurentiaux−Vieira & Laurentiaux, 1986
†Z. silesiensis Prokop et al., 2012
Zdenekia is a genus of extinct
winged insects from the Upper
Carboniferous period. It contains the species Z. grandis from the
Czech Republic,[1]Z. occidentalis from
Belgium,[1] and Z. silesiensis from
Poland.[2]Zdenekia is considered a member of the extinct order
Paoliida, a group that historically had controversial affinities and composition but have been resolved as the
sister group of
Dictyoptera by recent studies.[3][4]
^Jakub Prokop; Wieslaw Krzemiński; Ewa Krzemińska; Thomas Hörnschemeyer; Jan-Michael Ilger; Carsten Brauckmann; Philippe Grandcolas; André Nel (2014). "Late Palaeozoic Paoliida is the sister group of Dictyoptera (Insecta: Neoptera)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (5): 601–622.
doi:
10.1080/14772019.2013.823468.
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