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Stigmellites fossilis

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Nepticulidae

Taxonomy
Nepticula fossilis was named by von Heyden (1862). It is a trace fossil. Its type locality is Salzhausen, which is in a Miocene terrestrial siliciclastic in Germany.

It was recombined as Stigmellites fossilis by Sohn et al. (2012).

Entered
by M. Clapham on 2013-12-04

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1862Nepticula fossilis von Heyden p. 77 figs. Pl 10, fig 2
1885Nepticula fossilis Scudder p. 813 fig. 1090
2012Stigmellites fossilis Sohn et al. p. 24

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
—Metamphiesmenoptera
—Euamphiesmenoptera
—Panendymenoptera
—Endymenoptera
—Stelloptera
orderLepidoptera
—Angiospermivora
suborderGlossata()
—CoelolepidaNielsen and Kristensen 1996
infraorderHeteroneuraTillyard 1918
superfamilyNepticuloideaStainton 1859
familyNepticulidaeStainton 1859
genusStigmellites
speciesfossilis()

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.

†Stigmellites fossilis von Heyden 1862
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available