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Ptyelus

Insecta - Hemiptera - Aphrophoridae

Taxonomy
Ptyelus was named by Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau and Audinet-Serville (1828). It is extant.

It was reranked as Aphrophora (Ptyela) by Germar (1833), Germar and Berendt (1856).

It was assigned to Aphrophora by Germar (1833), Germar and Berendt (1856); to Cercopidae by Theobald (1937); and to Ptyelini by Cryan and Svenson (2010), Hamilton (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1828Ptyelus Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau and Audinet-Serville p. 608
1833Aphrophora (Ptyela) Germar
1856Aphrophora (Ptyela) Germar and Berendt p. 11
1937Ptyelus Theobald p. 260
2010Ptyelus Cryan and Svenson
2012Ptyelus Hamilton

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Clareocercaria
—Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
—Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
superfamilyCercopoideaLeach 1815
familyAphrophoridae()
subfamilyAphrophorinae
tribePtyelini()
genusPtyelus

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.

G. Ptyelus Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau and Audinet-Serville 1828
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†Ptyelus marcatus Theobald 1937
†Ptyelus spumiferus Heer 1853
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: base of the MP 23 to the top of the Sarmatian or 33.90000 to 11.63000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 27.3France Cercopis sp. (121476)
MP 2333.9 - 27.3France P. spumiferus (122535)
Rupelian33.9 - 27.3Germany P. marcatus (122407)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04France (Bouches-Du-Rhone) Aphrophora spumifera (122877)
Sarmatian12.8 - 11.63Croatia Aphrophora spumifera (117761)