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Artinska ovata

Insecta - Grylloblattodea - Lemmatophoridae

Taxonomy
Orta ovata was named by Sellards (1909). Its type specimen is Sellards 295, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Elmo, Sellards collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas.

It was recombined as Artinska ovata by Tillyard (1928), Carpenter (1935), Carpenter (1939), Storozhenko (1998) and Beckemeyer (2009).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1909Orta ovata Sellards p. 168 fig. 23
1922Orta ovata Handlirsch p. 92
1928Artinska ovata Tillyard p. 331 figs. 9-12
1935Artinska ovata Carpenter p. 122 fig. 4
1937Orta reducta Handlirsch
1937Orta sellardsiana Handlirsch p. 96
1937Orta tillyardiana Handlirsch p. 96
1939Artinska ovata Carpenter p. 66
1998Artinska ovata Storozhenko p. 78 fig. 127
2009Artinska ovata Beckemeyer p. 46 figs. 1a-c

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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
Xenonomia
orderGrylloblattodeaWalker 1914
familyLemmatophoridae
subfamilyLemmatophorinaeSellards 1909
genusArtinska
speciesovata()

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.

Artinska ovata Sellards 1909
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Invalid names: Orta reducta Handlirsch 1937 [synonym], Orta sellardsiana Handlirsch 1937 [synonym], Orta tillyardiana Handlirsch 1937 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available