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Pristapenesia

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Scolebythidae

Taxonomy

Pristapenesia was named by Brues (1933). It is extant.

It was assigned to Pristocerinae by Sorg (1988); to Bethylidae by Carpenter (1992); to Scolebythidae by Brothers and Janzen (1999); and to Pristapenesiinae by Engel et al. (2013), Engel (2015).

Species

P. inopinata, P. primaeva

Synonyms

Dominibythus was named by Prentice and Poinar (1996).

It was synonymized subjectively with Pristapenesia by Brothers and Janzen (1999), Engel and Grimaldi (2007), Engel et al. (2013).

It was assigned to Scolebythidae by Prentice and Poinar (1996).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1933	Pristapenesia Brues p. 131
1988	Pristapenesia Sorg p. 72
1992	Pristapenesia Carpenter
1996	Dominibythus Prentice and Poinar
1999	Pristapenesia Brothers and Janzen p. 20
2013	Pristapenesia Engel et al.
2015	Pristapenesia Engel p. 3

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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
—	Cercofilata

Rank	Name	Author
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Hymenopterida
order	Hymenoptera
—	Unicalcarida
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
—	Aculeata	()
superfamily	Chrysidoidea
family	Scolebythidae	Evans 1963
subfamily	Pristapenesiinae
genus	Pristapenesia

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. Pristapenesia Brues 1933

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†Pristapenesia inopinata Prentice and Poinar 1996

†Pristapenesia primaeva Brues 1933

Invalid names: Dominibythus Prentice and Poinar 1996 [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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Langhian or 37.71000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation	P. primaeva (137410)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Ukraine	P. primaeva (113621)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	P. primaeva (110735 123760 123927 124275)
Burdigalian - Langhian	20.45 - 13.82	Dominican Republic	Dominibythus inopinatus (122473)