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Mesoscytina

Insecta - Hemiptera - Scytinopteridae

Taxonomy

Mesoscytina was named by Tillyard (1919). Its type is Mesoscytina australis.

It was assigned to Scytinopterinae by Tillyard (1919); to Chiliocyclidae by Evans (1956); to Archijassidae by Hamilton (1992); and to Scytinopteridae by Tillyard (1923), Lambkin (2016), Zhang et al. (2024).

Species

M. australis (syn. M. affinis, Triassoscarta subcostalis) (type species), M. fistulae, M. forsterae, M. magna, M. woodsi

Synonyms

Triassoscarta was named by Tillyard (1919).

It was synonymized subjectively with Mesoscytina by Lambkin (2016).

It was assigned to Scytinopterinae by Tillyard (1919); to Scytinopteridae by Tillyard (1923); to Cercopida by Evans (1956); and to Ipsviciidae by Hamilton (1992).
Argentinopheloscyta was named by Martins-Neto and Gallego (2003).

It was synonymized subjectively with Mesoscytina by Lara et al. (2021).

It was assigned to Stenoviciidae by Martins-Neto et al. (2003), Lara and Wang (2016).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1919	Mesoscytina Tillyard
1919	Triassoscarta Tillyard
1919	Mesoscytina Tillyard p. 871
1919	Triassoscarta Tillyard p. 874
1923	Mesoscytina Tillyard
1923	Triassoscarta Tillyard
1956	Mesoscytina Evans p. 209
1956	Triassocarta Evans p. 217
1992	Mesoscytina Hamilton p. 428
1992	Triassoscarta Hamilton p. 428
2003	Argentinopheloscyta Martins-Neto and Gallego p. 246
2016	Mesoscytina Lambkin p. 582
2016	Argentinopheloscyta Lara and Wang p. 50
2024	Mesoscytina Zhang et al. p. 100

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	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
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Clareocercaria
—	Acercaria	()
superorder	Pancondylognatha
—	Condylognatha
order	Hemiptera
—	Hemelytrata	Fallen 1829
—	Prosorrhyncha	Sorensen et al. 1995
infraorder	Scytinopteromorpha	()
superfamily	Scytinopteroidea	Handlirsch 1906
family	Scytinopteridae
genus	Mesoscytina

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. †Mesoscytina Tillyard 1919

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†Mesoscytina australis Tillyard 1919

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Invalid names: Mesoscytina affinis Tillyard 1919 [synonym], Triassoscarta subcostalis Tillyard 1919 [synonym]

†Mesoscytina fistulae Lambkin 2016

†Mesoscytina forsterae Martins-Neto and Gallego 2003

†Mesoscytina magna Lambkin 2016

†Mesoscytina woodsi Lambkin 2016

Invalid names: Argentinopheloscyta Martins-Neto and Gallego 2003 [synonym], Triassoscarta Tillyard 1919 [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 Anisian to the top of the Norian or 246.70000 to 205.70000 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Anisian	246.7 - 241.464	Australia (Queensland)	M. australis (160468) M. fistulae, M. woodsi (154203)
Carnian	237.0 - 227.3	Argentina (La Rioja)	Argentinopheloscyta forsterae (123047)
Norian	227.3 - 205.7	Australia (Queensland)	M. australis, M. affinis, Triassoscarta subcostalis (111558) M. fistulae (123797 154204) M. magna (154205)