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Davidsmithia suni

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Blasticotomidae

Taxonomy
Protenthredo suni was named by Hong (1982). Its type specimen is P19-1 WM1006, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Lihaogou, Xiaoyutai, Ulanqab, which is in an Aptian terrestrial horizon in the Huliugou Formation of China. It is the type species of Davidsmithia, Protenthredo.

It was recombined as Davidsmithia suni by Pagliano and Scaramozzino (1990), Nel et al. (2004) and Taeger et al. (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1982Protenthredo suni Hong p. 93 figs. 17-19
1990Davidsmithia suni Pagliano and Scaramozzino
2004Davidsmithia suni Nel et al. p. 284
2010Davidsmithia suni Taeger et al. p. 663

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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
superfamilyTenthredinoidea
familyBlasticotomidae()
genusDavidsmithia
speciessuni()

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.

Davidsmithia suni Hong 1982
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