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Caenocholax comperei

Insecta - Strepsiptera - Myrmecolacidae

Taxonomy
Caenocholax comperei was named by Kogan and Poinar (2019). Its type specimen is Poinar C-St-1-2, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber, Cotui (Poinar coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2019Caenocholax comperei Kogan and Poinar p. 1228 figs. 9A-E, 10A-H

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderStrepsipteraKirby 1813
—Eteostrepsiptera
suborderNeostrepsiptera
infraorderEustrepsiptera
—Stylopidia(Kinzelbach 1969)
—Stylopiformia(Kinzelbach 1971)
superfamilyStylopoideaKirby 1813
familyMyrmecolacidaeSaunders 1872
genusCaenocholaxPierce 1909
speciescomperei

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.

†Caenocholax comperei Kogan and Poinar 2019
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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: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Dominican Republic Caenocholax comperei (type locality: 140259)