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Plesioschwinzia lacoei

Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae

Taxonomy
Locustopsis lacoei was named by Cockerell (1915). Its type specimen is USNM 61390, a tegmen, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Binton (Museum of Practical Geology collection), which is in a Hettangian marine limestone in the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Plesioschwinzia lacoei by Gorochov and Coram (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1915Locustopsis lacoei Cockerell p. 473 figs. Pl 40, fig 6; pl 41, figs 10,11; pl 60, figs 3,4
1942Locustopsis lacoei Zeuner p. 12
1983Locustopsis lacoei Zessin p. 185 fig. 10
2023Plesioschwinzia lacoei Gorochov and Coram p. 202

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
orderOrthoptera
suborderCaelifera
infraorderAcridideaMacLeay 1821
Acridomorpha
superfamilyLocustopsoideaHandlirsch 1906
familyLocustopsidae
subfamilyLocustopsinaeHandlirsch 1906
genusPlesioschwinzia
specieslacoei()

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.

Plesioschwinzia lacoei Cockerell 1915
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Diagnosis
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