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Mesosmylininae

Insecta - Neuroptera - Osmylidae

Taxonomy
Mesosmylininae was named by Bode (1953). Its type is Mesosmylina.

It was assigned to Osmylidae by Jepson et al. (2012), Winterton et al. (2017), Makarkin (2017), Winterton et al. (2019).

Subtaxa
Mesosmylina (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Mesosmylininae Bode
2012Mesosmylininae Jepson et al. p. 38
2017Mesosmylininae Makarkin p. 581
2017Mesosmylininae Winterton et al.
2019Mesosmylininae Winterton et al. p. 33

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
—Metaxyneuroptera
—Eidoneuroptera
orderNeuroptera
—Euneuroptera
superfamilyOsmyloideaLeach 1815
familyOsmylidaeLeach 1815
subfamilyMesosmylininaeBode 1953
subfamilyMesosmylininaeBode 1953

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.

Subfm. †Mesosmylininae Bode 1953
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G. †Mesosmylina Bode 1953
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†Mesosmylina angusta Khramov 2014
†Mesosmylina exornata Bode 1953
†Mesosmylina falcifera Ansorge 1996
†Mesosmylina mongolica Ponomarenko 1984
†Mesosmylina shurabica Khramov 2014
†Mesosmylina sibirica Ponomarenko 1985
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 Early/Lower Toarcian to the top of the Tithonian or 184.20000 to 143.10000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Toarcian184.2 - 182.9Germany (Niedersachsen) Mesosmylina exornata (105002)
Early/Lower Toarcian184.2 - 182.9Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) Mesosmylina falciferum (114993)
Toarcian184.2 - 174.7Kyrgyzstan (Batken) Mesosmylina angusta (110817) Mesosmylina shurabica (105003)
Bajocian - Bathonian170.9 - 165.3Russian Federation (Krasnoyarsk) Mesosmylina sibirica (118010)
Bathonian168.2 - 165.3Mongolia Mesosmylina mongolica (119621)
Tithonian149.2 - 143.1Russian Federation (Chita) Mesosmylina sp. (125407)