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Megapterites

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Siricidae

Taxonomy
Megapterites was named by Cockerell (1920). It is not extant. It is the type genus of Megapteritinae.

It was synonymized subjectively with Formicium by Blank et al. (2009) and Bolton (2012).

It was assigned to Pseudosiricinae by Cockerell (1921); to Pseudosiricidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Megapteritinae by Maa (1949) and Schiff et al. (2012).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1920Megapterites Cockerell p. 278
1921Megapterites Cockerell p. 22
1949Megapterites Maa p. 77
1992Megapterites Carpenter
2012Megapterites Schiff et al. p. 111

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
superfamilySiricoidea
familySiricidae()
subfamilyMegapteritinae
genusMegapterites

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. †Megapterites Cockerell 1920
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Megapterites mirabilis Cockerell 1920
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: Lutetian or 47.80000 to 41.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3United Kingdom (England) M. mirabilis (127644)