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Drakochrysa sinica

Insecta - Neuroptera - Chrysopidae

Taxonomy
Drakochrysa sinica was named by Yang and Hong (1990). Its type specimen is Beijing Natural History Museum 84SHL111, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is 84GT1, west Tuanwang Village, Laiyang City, which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large shale in the Laiyang Formation of China. It is the type species of Drakochrysa.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Drakochrysa sinica Yang and Hong p. 17 figs. Pl 1, fig 1; text-figs 3-5
1994Drakochrysa sinica Nel and Henrotay p. 303

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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
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
Metaxyneuroptera
Eidoneuroptera
orderNeuroptera
Euneuroptera
Neoneuroptera
superfamilyHemerobioidea
familyChrysopidaeSchneider 1851
subfamilyLimaiinae
genusDrakochrysa
speciessinica

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.

Drakochrysa sinica Yang and Hong 1990
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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: Aptian or 121.40000 to 113.20000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian121.4 - 113.2China (Shandong) Drakochrysa sinica (type locality: 154887)