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Aeschnidium bubas

Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae

Taxonomy
Aeschnidium bubas was named by Westwood (1854). Its type specimen is MNEMG A75 (neotype), a hindwing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Middle Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie collection), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Durlston Formation of the United Kingdom.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Aeschnidium bubas Westwood pp. 387, 393 figs. Pl 15, fig 5
1890Aeschnidium bubas Kirby p. 165
1906Aeschnidium bubas Handlirsch p. 594
1993Aeschnidium bubas Nel and Martínez-Delclòs p. 36

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
—Euhydropalaeoptera
—OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
—Palaeodonatoptera
—Plesiodonatoptera
—Apodonatoptera
—Paneodonatoptera
RankNameAuthor
—Neodonatoptera
—Euodonatoptera
—OdonatocladaBechly 1999
—Nodialata
—Discoidalia
—Stigmoptera
—Lobodonata
—Panodonata
orderOdonata
—Epiproctophora
—EuepiproctophoraBechly 1998
—Anisopteromorpha
—Trigonoptera
—Pananisoptera
—NeoanisopteraBechly 1998
familyAeschnidiidae
genusAeschnidiumWestwood 1854
speciesbubas

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.

†Aeschnidium bubas Westwood 1854
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitino
Form: roller-shapedo
Environment: freshwater, terrestrialo
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: volanto
Diet: carnivoreo
Diet 2: insectivoreo
Vision: well-developedo
Dispersal: watero
Created: 2011-03-07 03:41:10
Modified: 2011-03-06 10:41:10
Source: o = order
Reference: Ren and Guo 1996

Age range: Late/Upper Berriasian or 145.00000 to 140.20000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Berriasian145.0 - 140.2United Kingdom (England) Aeschnidium bubas (type locality: 117342 153649 153650)
Middle Berriasian145.0 - 140.2United Kingdom (England) Aeschnidium bubas (106401)