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Microsmylus foliformis

Insecta - Neuroptera

Taxonomy
Microsmylus foliformis was named by Panfilov (1980). Its type specimen is PIN 2554/784, a hindwing (apical fragment), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2554), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan. It is the type species of Microsmylus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1980Microsmylus foliformis Panfilov p. 110 figs. 114; Pl XV fig 3
1994Microsmylus foliformis Nel and Henrotay p. 307

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
—Metaxyneuroptera
—Eidoneuroptera
orderNeuroptera
—Euneuroptera
—Neoneuroptera
—Geoneuroptera
suborderMyrmeleontiformiaHenry 1982
superfamilyMyrmeleontoidea
genusMicrosmylus
speciesfoliformis

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.

†Microsmylus foliformis Panfilov 1980
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Diagnosis
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