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Eocephalothrips capito

Insecta - Thysanoptera - Heterothripidae

Taxonomy
Thrips capito was named by von Schlechtendal (1887). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Lord Dr Pohlig coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large lignite in the Rott Formation of Germany. It is the type species of Eocephalothrips.

It was recombined as Eocephalothrips capito by Bagnall (1924), Mound (1968) and Mound and Hastenpflug-Vesmanis (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1887Thrips capito von Schlechtendal p. 579 figs. Pl 5 fig 20
1895Thrips capito Uzel p. 290
1907Thrips capito Handlirsch p. 692
1924Eocephalothrips capito Bagnall p. 161
1968Eocephalothrips capito Mound p. 158
2021Eocephalothrips capito Mound and Hastenpflug-Vesmanis p. 6

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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
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
superorderThripidaFallen 1814
orderThysanopteraHaliday 1836
suborderTerebrantiaHaliday 1836
familyHeterothripidae
genusEocephalothrips
speciescapito()

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.

Eocephalothrips capito von Schlechtendal 1887
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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: MP 30 or 28.40000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Thrips capito (type locality: 142560)