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Purbecellus psocus

Insecta - Hemiptera - Archijassidae

Taxonomy
Cicadellium psocus was named by Westwood (1854). Its type specimen is BMNH I.11957, a hindwing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Middle Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie collection), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Durlston Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Purbecellus psocus by Shcherbakov (2012).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Cercopidium telesphorus Westwood pp. 384, 394 figs. Pl 15 fig 14
1854Cicadellium psocus Westwood pp. 384, 394 figs. Pl 15 fig 18
1907Cicadellium psocus Handlirsch p. 641 figs. Pl LI fig 33
1907Homopterulum telesphorus Handlirsch p. 642 figs. Pl LI fig 36
2004Cicadellium psocus Szwedo et al. p. 103
2012Cicadellium psocus Shcherbakov p. 19 figs. 12-15
2012Purbecellus psocus Shcherbakov p. 443

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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
superfamilyMembracoideaRafinesque 1815
familyArchijassidae
subfamilyKarajassinae(Shcherbakov 1992)
genusPurbecellus
speciespsocus()

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.

†Purbecellus psocus Westwood 1854
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Invalid names: Cercopidium telesphorus Westwood 1854 [synonym]
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: Late/Upper Berriasian or 139.10000 to 137.05000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Berriasian139.1 - 137.05United Kingdom (England) Cicadellium psocus, Cercopidium telesphorus (type locality: 117342)