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Magniscapa alligans

Insecta - Protorthoptera - Sheimiidae

Taxonomy
Pseudosheimia alligans was named by Aristov and Rasnitsyn (2008). Its type specimen is PIN 3353/447, an exoskeleton (complete insect), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Soyana (PIN collection 3353), which is in a Roadian lagoonal siliciclastic in the Iva-Gora Beds Formation of the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Magniscapa alligans by Shcherbakov (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2008Pseudosheimia alligans Aristov and Rasnitsyn p. 330 fig. 9
2015Magniscapa alligans Shcherbakov p. 191 figs. 15-18

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
orderProtorthoptera
familySheimiidae
genusMagniscapa
speciesalligans()

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.

†Magniscapa alligans Aristov and Rasnitsyn 2008
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available