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Belmontia

Insecta - Mecoptera - Belmontiidae

Taxonomy

Belmontia was named by Tillyard (1919).

It was assigned to Mecoptera by Carpenter (1992); and to Belmontiidae by Riek (1953), Willmann (1978), Willmann (1989), Novokshonov (1997).

Species

B. mitchelli (syn. Parabelmontia permiana)

Synonyms

Parabelmontia was named by Tillyard (1922).

It was synonymized subjectively with Belmontia by Willmann (1989), Novokshonov (1997).

It was assigned to Belmontiidae by Riek (1953), Willmann (1978).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1919	Belmontia Tillyard p. 234
1922	Parabelmontia Tillyard p. 285
1953	Belmontia Riek p. 58
1953	Parabelmontia Riek p. 59
1978	Belmontia Willmann p. 20
1978	Parabelmontia Willmann p. 21
1989	Belmontia Willmann p. 39
1992	Belmontia Carpenter
1997	Belmontia Novokshonov p. 72

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825

Rank	Name	Author
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Panorpida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Mecoptera	Packard 1886
family	Belmontiidae
genus	Belmontia

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.

G. †Belmontia Tillyard 1919

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†Belmontia mitchelli Tillyard 1919

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Invalid names: Parabelmontia permiana Tillyard 1922 [synonym]

Invalid names: Parabelmontia Tillyard 1922 [synonym]

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: Changhsingian or 254.14000 to 251.90200 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Changhsingian	254.14 - 251.902	Australia (New South Wales)	B. mitchelli (111684) B. mitchelli, Parabelmontia permiana (122433) Parabelmontia permiana (122475)