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Necrobythus pulcher

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Scolebythidae

Taxonomy
Necrobythus pulcher was named by Engel et al. (2013). Its type specimen is UASM 332547, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (UASM collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Necrobythus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2013Necrobythus pulcher Engel et al. p. 36 fig. 3,4
2015Necrobythus pulcher Engel p. 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyChrysidoidea
familyScolebythidaeEvans 1963
subfamilyPristapenesiinae
genusNecrobythus
speciespulcher

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Necrobythus pulcher Engel et al. 2013
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Middle Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Alberta) Necrobythus pulcher (type locality: 122357)