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Magrebarcta africana

Insecta - Hemiptera - Tettigarctidae

Taxonomy
Liassotettigarcta africana was named by Nel et al. (1998). Its type specimen is MPOM 103, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Merbah el Asfer, which is in an Aptian terrestrial claystone in the Douiret Formation of Tunisia.

It was recombined as Magrebarcta africana by Shcherbakov (2008), Moulds (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1998Liassotettigarcta africana Nel et al. pp. 595-597 figs. 2-3
2008Magrebarcta africana Shcherbakov
2018Magrebarcta africana Moulds

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Clareocercaria
—Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
—Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
superfamilyCicadoidea
familyTettigarctidaeDistant 1905
subfamilyTettigarctinaeDistant 1905
tribeProtabanini()
genusMagrebarcta
speciesafricana()

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.

†Magrebarcta africana Nel et al. 1998
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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: Aptian or 121.40000 to 113.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian121.4 - 113.2Tunisia Liassotettigarcta africana (type locality: 123442)