Bechala
Extinct genus of insects
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Bechala is a genus of insects that existed during the Late Carboniferous in what is now Germany. It was first described by Jan-Michael Ilger and Carsten Brauckmann in 2012, and the type species is B. sommeri. Its type specimen was a wing (AKH 524) discovered at the Küchenberg quarry, in the Ziegelschiefer Formation. The wing measurements are 39×6 millimetres.[1] Bechala was originally assigned to the extinct order Megasecoptera, but a restudy instead assigned it to the superorder Odonatoptera.[2]
| Bechala Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Superorder: | Odonatoptera |
| Family: | †Bechalidae |
| Genus: | †Bechala |
| Species: | †B. sommeri |
| Binomial name | |
| †Bechala sommeri Ilger & Brauckmann, 2012 | |
