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Electroembia antiqua

Insecta - Embioptera - Embiidae

Taxonomy
Embia antiqua was named by Pictet and Hagen (1856). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Berendt collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

It was recombined as Oligotoma antiqua by Hagen (1885); it was considered a nomen nudum by Pictet (1854); it was recombined as Electroembia antiqua by Ross (1956), Engel and Grimaldi (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1856Embia antiqua Pictet and Hagen p. 56 figs. Pl 5, fig 7
1866Embia antiqua Hagen p. 221
1885Oligotoma antiqua Hagen p. 176
1956Electroembia antiqua Ross p. 79 fig. 1,2
2011Electroembia antiqua Engel and Grimaldi p. 199

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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
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Eukinolabia
orderEmbiopteraLameere 1900
familyEmbiidae()
genusElectroembia
speciesantiqua()

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.

Electroembia antiqua Pictet and Hagen 1856
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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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Electroembia antiqua (123771)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Poland Embia antiqua (type locality: 109625)