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Tenuicephalus penicillus

Arachnida - Araneae - Tetrablemmidae

Taxonomy
Tenuicephalus penicillus was named by Wunderlich (2021). Its type specimen is F3652/BU/CJW, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Wunderlich coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar. It is the type species of Tenuicephalus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2021Tenuicephalus penicillus Wunderlich p. 61 figs. 66-69; photo 13

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
subphylumChelicerataHeymons 1901
—EuchelicerataWeygoldt and Paulus 1979
—Prosomapoda
—Planaterga
—Dekatriata
RankNameAuthor
—SclerophorataKamenz et al. 2011
classArachnidaLamarck 1801
—Pantetrapulmonata
subclassTetrapulmonataSchultz 1990
—Serikodiastida
orderAraneae
suborderOpisthothelaePocock 1892
infraorderAraneomorphaeSmith 1902
—SynspermiataMichalik and Ramírez 2014
familyTetrablemmidaeCambridge 1873
subfamilyTetrablemminaePickard-Cambridge 1873
genusTenuicephalus
speciespenicillus

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.

†Tenuicephalus penicillus Wunderlich 2021
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available