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Wightonia

Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae

Taxonomy
Wightonia was named by Carle (1990).

It was synonymized subjectively with Leptaeschnidium by Fleck and Nel (2003).

It was assigned to Aeschnidiidae by Carle and Wighton (1990), Nel and Martínez-Delclòs (1993) and Bechly (2007).

Species
W. araripina

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Wightonia Carle p. 66
1990Wightonia Carle and Wighton p. 66
1993Wightonia Nel and Martínez-Delclòs p. 64
2007Wightonia Bechly p. 199

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
—Euhydropalaeoptera
—OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
—Palaeodonatoptera
—Plesiodonatoptera
—Apodonatoptera
RankNameAuthor
—Paneodonatoptera
—Neodonatoptera
—Euodonatoptera
—OdonatocladaBechly 1999
—Nodialata
—Discoidalia
—Stigmoptera
—Lobodonata
—Panodonata
orderOdonata
—Epiproctophora
—EuepiproctophoraBechly 1998
—Anisopteromorpha
—Trigonoptera
—Pananisoptera
—NeoanisopteraBechly 1998
familyAeschnidiidae
genusWightonia

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. †Wightonia Carle 1990
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†Wightonia araripina Carle and Wighton 1990
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available