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Canadaphididae

Insecta - Hemiptera - Canadaphididae

Taxonomy

Canadaphidinae was named by Richards (1966). Its type is Canadaphis.

It was reranked as the family Canadaphididae by Heie and Pike (1996), Kania and Wegierek (2005), Heie and Wegierek (2011), Szwedo (2018), Wegierek (2020).

It was assigned to Aphididae by Richards (1966); and to Aphidoidea by Heie and Pike (1996), Kania and Wegierek (2005), Heie and Wegierek (2011), Szwedo (2018), Wegierek (2020).

Subtaxa

Alloambria, Canadaphis (type genus), Creocanadaphis, Nuuraphis, Pseudambria

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1966	Canadaphidinae Richards p. 754
1996	Canadaphididae Heie and Pike
2005	Canadaphididae Kania and Wegierek p. 279
2011	Canadaphididae Heie and Wegierek p. 9
2018	Canadaphididae Szwedo p. 114
2020	Canadaphididae Wegierek p. 1261

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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	Sternorrhyncha	()
—	Aphidiformes	Schlee 1969
infraorder	Aphidomorpha
superfamily	Aphidoidea
family	Canadaphididae	()
family	Canadaphididae	()

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.

Fm. †Canadaphididae Richards 1966

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G. †Alloambria Richards 1966

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†Alloambria caudata Richards 1966

†Alloambria infelicis Kania and Wegierek 2005

†Alloambria phoenicis Wegierek 1993

G. †Canadaphis Essig 1937

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†Canadaphis carpenteri Essig 1937

†Canadaphis kovalevi Wegierek 1993

†Canadaphis mordvilkoi Kononova 1976

†Canadaphis ugolyaki Ogłaza and Wegierek 2024

G. †Creocanadaphis Wegierek 2020

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†Creocanadaphis hirtus Wegierek 2020

G. †Nuuraphis Wegierek 1991

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†Nuuraphis gemma Wegierek 1991

G. †Pseudambria Richards 1966

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†Pseudambria longirostris Richards 1966

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 Aptian to the top of the Early/Lower Campanian or 121.40000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	Mongolia	Nuuraphis gemma (103657)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	Russian Federation (Buryatia)	Creocanadaphis hirtus (113349)
Late/Upper Santonian	85.7 - 83.6	Russian Federation	Canadaphis mordvilkoi (35056) Canadaphis ugolyaki (35055)
Early/Lower Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Russian Federation (Tenkinskii)	Alloambria phoenicis, Canadaphis kovalevi (105375)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Canada (Manitoba)	Canadaphis carpenteri (122356) Canadaphis carpenteri, Alloambria caudata, Pseudambria longirostris, Alloambria infelicis (122354)
Middle Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Canada (Alberta)	Canadaphis carpenteri (122387)