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Lychnocolax

Insecta - Strepsiptera - Myrmecolacidae

Taxonomy
Lychnocolax was named by Bohart (1951). It is extant.

It was assigned to Myrmecolacidae by Kogan and Poinar (2019).

Species
L. legneri

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1951Lychnocolax Bohart p. 1272
2019Lychnocolax Kogan and Poinar p. 1272

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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
genusLychnocolax

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.

G. Lychnocolax Bohart 1951
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†Lychnocolax legneri Kogan and Poinar 2019
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: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic L. legneri (122472)