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Nepticuloidea

Insecta - Lepidoptera

Taxonomy
Nepticuloidea was named by Stainton (1859). It is extant.

It was assigned to Nepticulina by van Nieukerken et al. (2011) and Sohn et al. (2012); and to Heteroneura by Regier et al. (2015).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1859Nepticuloidea Stainton
2011Nepticuloidea van Nieukerken et al. p. 213
2012Nepticuloidea Sohn et al. p. 21
2015Nepticuloidea Regier et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
Metamphiesmenoptera
Euamphiesmenoptera
Panendymenoptera
Endymenoptera
Stelloptera
orderLepidoptera
Angiospermivora
suborderGlossata()
CoelolepidaNielsen and Kristensen 1996
infraorderHeteroneuraTillyard 1918
superfamilyNepticuloideaStainton 1859
superfamilyNepticuloideaStainton 1859

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.

Superfm. Nepticuloidea Stainton 1859
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Fm. Nepticulidae Stainton 1859
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G. Bohemannia Stainton 1859
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Bohemannia aschaueri Fischer 2013
Bohemannia butzmanni Fischer 2013
G. Stigmella Schrank 1802
G. †Stigmellites Kernbach 1967
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Stigmellites araliae Fritsch 1882
Stigmellites baltica Kozlov 1988
Stigmellites fossilis von Heyden 1862
Stigmellites heringi Kernbach 1967
Stigmellites pliotityrellus Kernbach 1967
Stigmellites samsonovi Kozlov 1988
Stigmellites serpentina Kozlov 1988
Stigmellites sharovi Kozlov 1988
Stigmellites tyshchenkoi Kozlov 1988
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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Turonian to the top of the Piacenzian or 93.90000 to 2.58800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma

Collections (10 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Czech Republic Tinea araliae (123775 123776)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8Kazakhstan Stigmellites kzyldzharica, Stigmellites serpentina, Stigmellites samsonovi, Stigmellites sharovi, Stigmellites tyshchenkoi (103274)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) Lepidoptera sp.A (123959) Lepidoptera sp.C (123960)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Bohemannia butzmanni, Bohemannia aschaueri (140452) Nepticulidae indet., Nepticulidae indet. (167686) Stigmellites balticus (123978)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Germany Nepticula fossilis (152936)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.588Germany (Niedersachsen) Stigmellites heringi, Stigmellites pliotityrellus (109196)