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Praesirex hirtus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Megalodontesidae

Taxonomy
Praesirex hirtus was named by Rasnitsyn (1968). Its type specimen is PIN 1989/2605, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 1989), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large siltstone/marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Praesirex.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Praesirex hirtus Rasnitsyn p. 216 figs. Pl 24, fig 9; text-fig 23
1983Praesirex hirtus Rasnitsyn p. 65 fig. 3a
2010Praesirex hirtus Taeger et al. p. 95
2015Praesirex hirtus Wang et al. p. 42

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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
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
superfamilyPamphilioidea
familyMegalodontesidaeKonow 1897
subfamilyPraesiricinae
genusPraesirex
specieshirtus

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.

Praesirex hirtus Rasnitsyn 1968
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available