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Parapsocus pectinatus

Insecta - Diptera - Axymyiidae

Taxonomy
Parapsocus pectinatus was named by Hong (1983). Its type specimen is Coll Y. Hong 1020, an exoskeleton (incomplete adult, dorso-ventral aspect), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Yujiagou, collection Lby/y3, Beipiao City, which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian terrestrial mudstone in the Haifanggou Formation of China. It is the type species of Parapsocus, Psocites.

It was recombined as Psocites pectinatus by Hong (1992), Zhang (2004) and Zhang (2010).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Parapsocus pectinatus Hong p. 78 figs. Pl 23, fig 3; text-fig 69
1992Psocites pectinatus Hong p. 51
2004Psocites pectinatus Zhang p. 688 figs. 1,2(a,b), 3, 4
2009Crenoptychoptera vulgaris Hao et al. p. 107 fig. 2,4
2010Psocites pectinatus Zhang p. 457 fig. 1,3
2023Parapsocus pectinatus Clapham

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderAxymyiomorpha
familyAxymyiidaeShannon 1921
genusParapsocus
speciespectinatus

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.

Parapsocus pectinatus Hong 1983
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Invalid names: Crenoptychoptera decorsa Hao et al. 2009 [synonym], Crenoptychoptera vulgaris Hao et al. 2009 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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