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Orthoscytina

Insecta - Hemiptera - Prosbolidae

Taxonomy

Orthoscytina was named by Tillyard (1926).

It was assigned to Scytinopteridae by Tillyard (1926), Evans (1956), Riek (1976); and to Prosbolidae by Becker-Migdisova (1961), Shcherbakov (1984), van Dijk and Geertsema (1999).

Species

O. belmontensis, O. dubitata, O. iljinskiensis, O. indistincta, O. irregularis, O. longifurcata, O. mitchelli, O. obliqua, O. pallida, O. pincombei, O. quinquemedia, O. skoki, O. sokolovensis, O. subcostalis, O. suchovi, O. surijokovensis, O. tetraneura

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1926	Orthoscytina Tillyard p. 9
1956	Orthoscytina Evans p. 185
1961	Orthoscytina Becker-Migdisova p. 308
1976	Orthoscytina Riek p. 777
1984	Orthoscytina Shcherbakov p. 91
1999	Orthoscytina van Dijk and Geertsema p. 139

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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
suborder	Auchenorrhyncha	()
infraorder	Cicadomorpha	Evans 1946
infraorder	Prosbolomorpha	Popov 1980
superfamily	Prosboloidea	(Handlirsch 1906)
family	Prosbolidae
genus	Orthoscytina

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. †Orthoscytina Tillyard 1926

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†Orthoscytina belmontensis Tillyard 1926

†Orthoscytina dubitata Riek 1976

†Orthoscytina iljinskiensis Becker-Migdisova 1961

†Orthoscytina indistincta Tillyard 1926

†Orthoscytina irregularis Tillyard 1926

†Orthoscytina longifurcata Becker-Migdisova 1961

†Orthoscytina mitchelli Tillyard 1926

†Orthoscytina obliqua Tillyard 1926

†Orthoscytina pallida Becker-Migdisova 1961

†Orthoscytina pincombei Tillyard 1926

†Orthoscytina quinquemedia Tillyard 1926

†Orthoscytina skoki Becker-Migdisova 1961

†Orthoscytina sokolovensis Becker-Migdisova 1961

†Orthoscytina subcostalis Tillyard 1926

†Orthoscytina suchovi Becker-Migdisova 1961

†Orthoscytina surijokovensis Becker-Migdisova 1961

†Orthoscytina tetraneura Tillyard 1926

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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Roadian to the top of the Changhsingian or 274.40000 to 251.90200 Ma

Collections (15 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Roadian	274.4 - 266.9	Russian Federation (Kemerovo)	O. pallida (124604) O. suchovi (124607)
Wordian	266.9 - 264.28	Russian Federation (Kemerovo)	O. skoki, O. iljinskiensis (124606) O. skoki, O. longifurcata (124600) O. surijokovensis, O. pallida (124603)
Wuchiapingian	259.51 - 254.14	Russian Federation	O. sokolovensis (124608)
Changhsingian	254.14 - 251.902	South Africa (Natal)	O. dubitata (124428)
Changhsingian	254.14 - 251.902	Australia (New South Wales)	O. indistincta (122413) O. irregularis (122415) O. mitchelli, O. obliqua (122412) O. obliqua (122411) O. pincombei (122416) O. quinquemedia (122410) O. spp. (122433) O. subcostalis, O. belmontensis, O. tetraneura (122414)