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Melanothrips annulicornis

Insecta - Thysanoptera - Melanthripidae

Taxonomy
Melanothrips annulicornis was named by Bagnall (1923). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Eocranothrips.

It was recombined as Melanthrips annulicornis by Priesner (1929); it was recombined as Eocranothrips annulicornis by Bagnall (1926), Mound (1968), Schliephake (2005), Ulitzka (2017), Mound and Hastenpflug-Vesmanis (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Melanothrips annulicornis Bagnall p. 36
1926Eocranothrips annulicornis Bagnall p. 17
1929Melanthrips annulicornis Priesner p. 114
1968Eocranothrips annulicornis Mound p. 154 figs. 74, 80
1999Eocranothrips compacticornis Schliephake pp. 85-86 figs. Photo 1
1999Eocranothrips leptocerus Schliephake pp. 86-88 figs. Photo 2
2003Eocranothrips compacticornis Schliephake p. 172
2005Eocranothrips annulicornis Schliephake
2017Eocranothrips annulicornis Ulitzka p. 208 figs. 5-7
2021Eocranothrips annulicornis Mound and Hastenpflug-Vesmanis p. 7

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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
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Clareocercaria
—Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
—Condylognatha
superorderThripidaFallen 1814
orderThysanopteraHaliday 1836
suborderTerebrantiaHaliday 1836
familyMelanthripidae()
genusMelanothripsHaliday 1836
speciesannulicornis

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.

†Melanothrips annulicornis Bagnall 1923
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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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Melanothrips annulicornis (type locality: 123927)