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Mylacris virginiana

Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae

Taxonomy
Exochomylacris virginiana was named by Handlirsch (1906). Its type specimen is USNM 25634, a tegmen, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Clendennin, which is in a Westphalian terrestrial sandstone in the Charleston Sandstone Formation of West Virginia. It is the type species of Exochomylacris.

It was recombined as Mylacris virginiana by Durden (1969).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1906Exochomylacris virginiana Handlirsch p. 260 figs. Pl XXVII fig 17
1920Exochomylacris virginiana Handlirsch p. 454
1922Exochomylacris virginiana Handlirsch p. 177
1969Mylacris virginiana Durden p. 1168

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
familyMylacridae()
genusMylacris
speciesvirginiana()

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.

†Mylacris virginiana Handlirsch 1906
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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: Westphalian or 318.70000 to 307.40000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Westphalian318.7 - 307.4USA (West Virginia) Exochomylacris virginiana (type locality: 125763)