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Huaxiaraphidia sinensis

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Huaxiaraphidia sinensis was named by Hong (1992). Its type specimen is BMNH 34 SHL 113, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is West of Tuanwan, Laiyang basin, which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large shale in the Laiyang Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Huaxiaraphidia sinensis Hong p. 129 figs. 2a-c
2002Huaxiaraphidia sinensis Engel p. 18
2015Huaxiaraphidia sinensis Lu et al. p. 565

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
orderRaphidioptera()
suborderRaphidiomorpha
—Raphidiformia
familyMesoraphidiidae
subfamilyMesoraphidiinae
genusHuaxiaraphidia
speciessinensis

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.

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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: Aptian or 125.00000 to 113.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Aptian125.0 - 113.0China (Shandong) Huaxiaraphidia sinensis (type locality: 154303)