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Mesodiphthera grandis

Insecta - Hemiptera - Tettigarctidae

Taxonomy
Mesodiphthera grandis was named by Tillyard (1919). Its type specimen is GSQI213, a tegmen (Basal half of tegmen), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Denmark Hill Insect Bed (Dunstan 1915-1916 collection), which is in a Norian pond siltstone in the Blackstone Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Mesodiphthera.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Mesodiphthera grandis Tillyard p. 873 figs. Fig 7
1923Mesodiphthera grandis Tillyard
2019Mesodiphthera grandis Lambkin p. 360 figs. 1-7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
superfamilyCicadoidea
familyTettigarctidaeDistant 1905
genusMesodiphthera
speciesgrandis

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.

Mesodiphthera grandis Tillyard 1919
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Diagnosis
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