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Permopsyche belmontensis

Insecta - Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae

Taxonomy
Mesopanorpodes belmontensis was named by Riek (1953). Its type specimen is AM F40166, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Warner's Bay, Belmont (AMF coll), which is in a Changhsingian pond chert in the Croudace Bay Formation of Australia.

It was recombined as Permopsyche belmontensis by Bashkuev (2011) and Lin et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Mesopanorpodes belmontensis Riek p. 70 figs. Pl 6, figs 12,13; text-fig 35
1978Mesopanorpodes belmontensis Willmann p. 56
1997Mesopanorpodes belmontensis Novokshonov p. 69 fig. 21c
2011Permopsyche belmontensis Bashkuev p. 268
2016Permopsyche belmontensis Lin et al. p. 3

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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
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
superfamilyMesopsychoidea
familyMesopsychidae
genusPermopsyche
speciesbelmontensis()

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.

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Diagnosis
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