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Palaeovespa

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Vespidae

Taxonomy

Palaeovespa was named by Cockerell (1906). It is not extant. Its type is Palaeovespa florissantia.

It was assigned to Vespidae by Cockerell (1906), Cockerell (1911), Carpenter (1992) and Poinar (2005); and to Vespinae by Nel and Auvray (2006) and Perrard et al. (2016).

Species

P. baltica, P. florissantia (type species), P. gillettei, P. relecta, P. scudderi, P. socialis, P. wilsoni, Paleovespa menatensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1906	Palaeovespa Cockerell p. 54
1911	Palaeovespa Cockerell p. 72
1992	Palaeovespa Carpenter
2005	Palaeovespa Poinar p. 59
2006	Paleovespa Nel and Auvray p. 60
2016	Palaeovespa Perrard et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Hymenopterida
order	Hymenoptera
—	Unicalcarida
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
—	Aculeata	()
superfamily	Vespoidea
family	Vespidae	()
subfamily	Vespinae
genus	Palaeovespa

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. †Palaeovespa Cockerell 1906

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†Palaeovespa baltica Cockerell 1909

†Palaeovespa florissantia Cockerell 1906

†Palaeovespa gillettei Cockerell 1906

†Palaeovespa relecta Cockerell 1923

†Palaeovespa scudderi Cockerell 1906

†Palaeovespa socialis Poinar 2005

†Palaeovespa wilsoni Cockerell 1915

†Paleovespa menatensis Nel and Auvray 2006

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 Selandian to the top of the Chadronian or 61.60000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Selandian	61.6 - 59.2	France (Auvergne)	Paleovespa menatensis (123436)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	P. baltica (123927) P. socialis (125139)
Chadronian	37.2 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	P. florissantia, P. scudderi, P. gillettei (106384) P. relecta (124527) P. scudderi (106379 144782) P. wilsoni (113749)