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Pseudaplatopterus ascheelei

Insecta - Coleoptera - Lycidae

Taxonomy
Pseudaplatopterus ascheelei was named by Kleine (1940). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Scheele collection, University of Hamburg, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Pseudaplatopterus, Pseudaplatopterus (Pseudaplatopterus).

It was corrected as Pseudaplatopterus scheelei by Winkler (1987); it was recombined as Pseudaplatopterus (Pseudaplatopterus) ascheelei by Kazantsev (2013).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Pseudaplatopterus ascheelei Kleine p. 179
1987Pseudaplatopterus scheelei Winkler p. 75
2013Pseudaplatopterus (Pseudaplatopterus) ascheelei Kazantsev p. 98
2020Pseudaplatopterus ascheelei Kazantsev p. 384

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyElateroidea
familyLycidae()
subfamilyErotinaeLeConte 1881
tribeErotiniLeConte 1881
genusPseudaplatopterus
speciesascheelei

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: 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) Pseudaplatopterus ascheelei (type locality: 123771)