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Nigropterix cummingi

Insecta - Alienoptera - Umenocoleidae

Taxonomy
Nigropterix cummingi was named by Sendi (2024). Its type specimen is SNM Z 40731, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Slovak National Museum SNM collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2024Nigropterix cummingi Sendi p. 478 fig. 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderAlienoptera
familyUmenocoleidae
genusNigropterix
speciescummingi

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.

Nigropterix cummingi Sendi 2024
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinf
Form: inflated sheetf
Ontogeny: moltingf
Grouping: solitaryf
Environment: terrestrialf
Locomotion: fast-movingf
Life habit: arborealf
Diet: herbivoref
Vision: well-developedf
Reproduction: oviparousf
Created: 2013-02-02 05:47:31
Modified: 2013-02-01 12:47:31
Source: f = family
Reference: Vršanský 2003

Age range: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Nigropterix cummingi (type locality: 184414)