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Amorphoscelis brevialata

Insecta - Mantodea - Amorphoscelidae

Taxonomy
Chaetoessa brevialata was named by Giebel (1862). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is East Africa Copal (Coburg collection), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Tanzania.

It was recombined as Amorphoscelis brevialata by Hennig (1966).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1862Chaetoessa brevialata Giebel p. 316
1907Chaetoessa brevialata Handlirsch p. 693
1966Amorphoscelis brevialata Hennig p. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
RankNameAuthor
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderMantodeaBurmeister 1838
suborderNeomantodea
infraorderEumantodea
Spinomantodea
Schizomantodea
Artimantodea
Cernomantodea
Nanomantodea
superfamilyNanomantoidea
familyAmorphoscelidae
subfamilyAmorphoscelinae
genusAmorphoscelisStal 1871
speciesbrevialata()

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.

Amorphoscelis brevialata Giebel 1862
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Tanzania Chaetoessa brevialata (type locality: 129861)