''Geinitzia'' is an
extinct
Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
genus of flying insects belonging to the order
Reculida and family
Geinitziidae
Geinitziidae is an extinct family of polyneopteran insects, known from the Permian to Cretaceous. They are currently considered to be members " Grylloblattida" a poorly defined group of extinct insects thought to be related to modern ice crawl ...
. Species belonging to the genus lived from the
Permian to the
Jurassic and have been found in China, Germany,
Kyrgyzstan, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Russia.
Species
A number of species have been described in ''Geinitzia''.
:''G. annosa''
[
:''G. aristovi''
:''G. asiatica''
:''G. carpentieri''
:''G. dorni''][
:''G. latrunculorum''][
:''G. minor''
:''G. perlaesa''][
:''G. reticulata''][
:''G. subita''][
:''G. superaucta''][
:''G. varia''][
]
References
Permian animals
Triassic animals
Jurassic animals
Prehistoric insect genera
Polyneoptera
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