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Protopelecinus deformis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Pelecinidae

Taxonomy
Protopelecinus deformis was named by Zhang and Rasnitsyn (2004). Its type specimen is PIN 3559/681, a forewing (forewing damaged marginally and deformed in preservation), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559), which is in an Aptian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2004Protopelecinus deformis Zhang and Rasnitsyn p. 811 figs. 1G, H, 5

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
infraorderProctotrupomorpha
superfamilyProctotrupoidea
familyPelecinidaeHaliday 1840
subfamilyPelecininaeHaliday 1840
genusProtopelecinus
speciesdeformis

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.

†Protopelecinus deformis Zhang and Rasnitsyn 2004
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available