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Homopterulum signoretii

Insecta - Hemiptera - Archijassidae

Taxonomy
Cercopidium signoretii was named by Westwood (1854). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Lower Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie coll.), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

It was recombined as Homopterulum signoreti by Handlirsch (1907) and Evans (1956); it was recombined as Homopterulum signoretii by Hamilton (1992).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1854Cercopidium signoretii Westwood pp. 390, 396 figs. Pl 18, fig 36
1907Homopterulum signoreti Handlirsch p. 642 figs. Pl LI fig 35
1956Homopterulum signoreti Evans p. 212
1992Homopterulum signoretii Hamilton p. 425

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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
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderAuchenorrhyncha()
infraorderCicadomorphaEvans 1946
superfamilyMembracoideaRafinesque 1815
familyArchijassidae
subfamilyDellasharinae
genusHomopterulum
speciessignoretii()

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.

Homopterulum signoretii Westwood 1854
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Diagnosis
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