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Megapteritinae

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Siricidae

Taxonomy
Megapteritinae was named by Maa (1949). Its type is Megapterites.

It was reranked as the family Megapteritidae by Rasnitsyn (1968); it was synonymized subjectively with Myrmiciidae by Rasnitsyn (1969); it was synonymized subjectively with Pseudosiricidae by Carpenter (1992); it was synonymized subjectively with Formiciinae by Blank et al. (2009).

It was assigned to Symphyta by Rasnitsyn (1968); and to Siricidae by Maa (1949) and Schiff et al. (2012).

Subtaxa
Megapterites (type genus), Shurabica

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1949Megapteritinae Maa p. 77
1968Megapteritidae Rasnitsyn p. 217
2012Megapteritinae Schiff et al. p. 111

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
superfamilySiricoidea
familySiricidae()
subfamilyMegapteritinae
subfamilyMegapteritinae

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.

Subfm. †Megapteritinae Maa 1949
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G. †Megapterites Cockerell 1920
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Megapterites mirabilis Cockerell 1920
G. †Shurabica Rasnitsyn 1968
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: Lutetian or 47.80000 to 41.30000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3United Kingdom (England) Megapterites mirabilis (127644)