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Nigronia prussia

Insecta - Megaloptera - Corydalidae

Taxonomy
Nigronia prussia was named by Liu and Ansorge (2020). Its type specimen is German Amber Museum, Ribnitz-Damgarten RD 300, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Ribnitz-Damgarten collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Entered
by M. Clapham on 2022-04-11

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2020Nigronia prussia Liu and Ansorge p. 189 figs. 1-3
2022Nigronia prussia Martins et al. p. 42

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
—Metaxyneuroptera
—Eidoneuroptera
orderMegaloptera()
suborderNeomegaloptera
suborderEumegaloptera
familyCorydalidaeLeach 1815
subfamilyChauliodinaeDavis 1903
genusNigronia
speciesprussia

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.

†Nigronia prussia Liu and Ansorge 2020
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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) Nigronia prussia (type locality: 155982)