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Paraprisca fragilis

Insecta - Grylloblattodea - Lemmatophoridae

Taxonomy
Prisca fragilis was named by Sellards (1909). It is not extant. Its type locality is Elmo, Sellards collection, which is in an Artinskian pond limestone in the Wellington Formation of Kansas. It is the type species of Paraprisca, Prisca.

It was recombined as Paraprisca fragilis by Handlirsch (1919), Handlirsch (1922), Tillyard (1928), Carpenter (1935), Storozhenko (1998) and Beckemeyer (2009).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1909Prisca fragilis Sellards
1919Paraprisca fragilis Handlirsch p. 555
1922Paraprisca fragilis Handlirsch p. 92
1928Paraprisca fragilis Tillyard p. 336 figs. 13-15
1935Paraprisca fragilis Carpenter p. 125 fig. 5
1937Lemmatophora longipennis Handlirsch p. 93
1937Paraprisca stigmatica Tillyard p. 97 fig. 5
1998Paraprisca fragilis Storozhenko p. 79 fig. 129
2009Paraprisca fragilis Beckemeyer p. 46 figs. 2a-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
subfamilyParapriscinaeCarpenter 1950
genusParaprisca
speciesfragilis(Sellards 1909)

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.

Paraprisca fragilis Sellards 1909
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Invalid names: Lemmatophora longipennis Handlirsch 1937 [synonym], Paraprisca stigmatica Tillyard 1937 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available