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Plesioschwinzia posterior

Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae

Taxonomy
Locustopsis posterior was named by Gorochov et al. (2006). It is considered to be a form taxon. Its type specimen is Sedgwick Museum 36, a tegmen, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Ridgeway (Fisher collection), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal horizon in the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Plesioschwinzia posterior by Gorochov and Coram (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2006Locustopsis posterior Gorochov et al. p. 658 fig. 30
2023Plesioschwinzia posterior Gorochov and Coram p. 202

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
orderOrthoptera
suborderCaelifera
infraorderAcridideaMacLeay 1821
Acridomorpha
superfamilyLocustopsoideaHandlirsch 1906
familyLocustopsidae
subfamilyLocustopsinaeHandlirsch 1906
genusPlesioschwinzia
speciesposterior()

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.

Plesioschwinzia posterior Gorochov et al. 2006
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available