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Alloraphidia dorfi

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Alloraphidia dorfi was named by Carpenter (1967). Its type specimen is PU 87269 and is a compression preserving soft parts. Its type locality is Redmond No. 1, Knob Lake District (Dorf collection), which is in a Cenomanian marginal marine claystone in the Redmond Formation of Canada.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1967Alloraphidia dorfi Carpenter p. 271 fig. 1
2002Alloraphidia dorfi Engel p. 14
2015Alloraphidia dorfi Lu et al. p. 565

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
orderRaphidioptera()
suborderRaphidiomorpha
Raphidiformia
familyMesoraphidiidae
subfamilyAlloraphidiinae()
genusAlloraphidia
speciesdorfi

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.

Alloraphidia dorfi Carpenter 1967
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
F. M. Carpenter 1967Fore wing: length 9.5 mm., width 1.6 mm.; pterostigma light yellow (as preserved), short and broad and traversed by a single oblique veinlet; MP with four definite terminal branches; CuA with three branches. Hind wing length 9.0 mm., width I .8 mm.; pterostigma as in fore wing but slightly narrower; CuA with a distal fork; cross veins shown in text-figure 1.
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: Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador) Alloraphidia dorfi (type locality: 119438)