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Mesophthiridae
Taxonomy
Mesophthiridae was named by Gao et al. (2019). Its type is Mesophthirus.
It was considered an invalid subgroup of Coccoidea by Grimaldi and Vea (2021); it was reranked as the subfamily Mesophthirinae by Shcherbakov (2022).
It was assigned to Insecta by Gao et al. (2019); to Xylococcidae by Shcherbakov (2022); and to Neoptera by Gao et al. (2022).
It was considered an invalid subgroup of Coccoidea by Grimaldi and Vea (2021); it was reranked as the subfamily Mesophthirinae by Shcherbakov (2022).
It was assigned to Insecta by Gao et al. (2019); to Xylococcidae by Shcherbakov (2022); and to Neoptera by Gao et al. (2022).
Subtaxa
Mesophthirus (type genus)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Mesophthiridae Gao et al. p. 2 |
| 2022 | Mesophthiridae Gao et al. p. 337 |
| 2022 | Mesophthirinae Shcherbakov p. 343 |
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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.
Fm. †Mesophthiridae Gao et al. 2019
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available