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Urocerus ligniticus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Siricidae

Taxonomy
Eosirex ligniticus was named by Piton (1940). Its type specimen is Coll. Piton 743, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

It was recombined as Urocerus ligniticus by Nel (1988), Taeger et al. (2010) and Wedmann et al. (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Eosirex ligniticus Piton pp. 229-230 fig. 96
1988Urocerus ligniticus Nel figs. 1, 5
2010Urocerus ligniticus Taeger et al. p. 104
2014Urocerus ligniticus Wedmann et al. p. 37 figs. 4, 5

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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
superfamilySiricoidea
familySiricidae()
subfamilySiricinae
genusUrocerus
speciesligniticus()

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.

Urocerus ligniticus Piton 1940
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Diagnosis
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