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Chalscelio orapa

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Chalscelionidae

Taxonomy
Chalscelio orapa was named by Rasnitsyn and Brothers (2007). Its type specimen is BP/2/26990, an exoskeleton (complete female), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Orapa (Bernard Price Institute), which is in a Turonian lacustrine - large mudstone in Botswana. It is the type species of Chalscelio.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2007Chalscelio orapa Rasnitsyn and Brothers pp. 196-197 figs. 1, 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
infraorderProctotrupomorpha
Microprocta
familyChalscelionidae
genusChalscelio
speciesorapa

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.

Chalscelio orapa Rasnitsyn and Brothers 2007
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available