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Parapsocus pectinatus

Insecta - Diptera - Axymyiidae

Taxonomy
Parapsocus pectinatus was named by Hong (1983). Its type specimen is Coll Y. Hong 1020, an exoskeleton (incomplete adult, dorso-ventral aspect), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Yujiagou, collection Lby/y3, Beipiao City, which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian terrestrial mudstone in the Haifanggou Formation of China. It is the type species of Parapsocus, Psocites.

It was recombined as Psocites pectinatus by Hong (1992), Zhang (2004), Zhang (2010).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Parapsocus pectinatus Hong p. 78 figs. Pl 23, fig 3; text-fig 69
1992Psocites pectinatus Hong p. 51
2004Psocites pectinatus Zhang p. 688 figs. 1,2(a,b), 3, 4
2009Crenoptychoptera vulgaris Hao et al. p. 107 fig. 2,4
2010Psocites pectinatus Zhang p. 457 fig. 1,3
2023Parapsocus pectinatus Clapham

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderAxymyiomorpha
familyAxymyiidaeShannon 1921
genusParapsocus
speciespectinatus

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.

†Parapsocus pectinatus Hong 1983
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Invalid names: Crenoptychoptera decorsa Hao et al. 2009 [synonym], Crenoptychoptera vulgaris Hao et al. 2009 [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 Callovian to the top of the Oxfordian or 165.30000 to 154.80000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian165.3 - 154.8China (Liaoning) Parapsocus pectinatus (type locality: 154730)
Callovian - Oxfordian165.3 - 154.8China (Nei Mongol) Crenoptychoptera vulgaris (113360 113362) Psocites pectinatus (113371)