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Lithadothrips vetustus

Insecta - Thysanoptera - Aeolothripidae

Taxonomy
Lithadothrips vetusta was named by Scudder (1875). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Fossil Cañon, which is in a Bridgerian lacustrine - large shale in the Green River Formation of Utah. It is the type species of Lithadothrips.

It was corrected as Lithadothrips vetustus by Mound and Hastenpflug-Vesmanis (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1875Lithadothrips vetusta Scudder p. 222
1877Lithadothrips vetusta Scudder p. 761
1890Lithadothrips vetusta Scudder p. 372 figs. Pl 5 figs 88, 89, 102, 103
2021Lithadothrips vetustus Mound and Hastenpflug-Vesmanis p. 6

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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
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
superorderThripidaFallen 1814
orderThysanopteraHaliday 1836
suborderTerebrantiaHaliday 1836
familyAeolothripidaeUzel 1895
genusLithadothrips
speciesvetustus()

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.

Lithadothrips vetustus Scudder 1875
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Diagnosis
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