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Praeaphidius microphthalmus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Braconidae

Taxonomy
Aphidius microphthalmus was named by Brues (1933). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Praeaphidius.

It was recombined as Praeaphidius microphthalmus by Spahr (1987) and Ortega-Blanco et al. (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1933Aphidius microphthalmus Brues p. 108 figs. Pl 11, fig 63
1987Praeaphidius microphthalmus Spahr p. 9
2009Praeaphidius microphthalmus Ortega-Blanco et al. p. 275

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
superfamilyIchneumonoidea
familyBraconidae
subfamilyAphidiinae()
genusPraeaphidiusStary 1973
speciesmicrophthalmus()

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.

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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Aphidius microphthalmus (type locality: 123927)