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Pristapenesia inopinata

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Scolebythidae

Taxonomy
Dominibythus inopinatus was named by Prentice and Poinar (1996). Its type specimen is USNM Brodzinsky/Lopen-Penha 7594, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

It was recombined as Pristapenesia inopinatus by Brothers and Janzen (1999); it was recombined as Pristapenesia inopinata by Engel and Grimaldi (2007), Engel et al. (2013) and Engel (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Dominibythus inopinatus Prentice and Poinar p. 805 figs. 1, 3, 4, 7-9
1999Pristapenesia inopinatus Brothers and Janzen p. 20
2007Pristapenesia inopinata Engel and Grimaldi p. 2
2013Pristapenesia inopinata Engel et al.
2015Pristapenesia inopinata Engel p. 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyChrysidoidea
familyScolebythidaeEvans 1963
subfamilyPristapenesiinae
genusPristapenesia
speciesinopinata()

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.

†Pristapenesia inopinata Prentice and Poinar 1996
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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: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Dominibythus inopinatus (type locality: 122473)