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Notonecta xyphiale

Insecta - Hemiptera - Notonectidae

Taxonomy
Clypostemma xyphiale was named by Popov (1964). Its type specimen is PIN 1668/1738, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 1668, layer 31), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large siltstone/marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Notonecta xyphiale by Nel and Paicheler (1992) and Zhang et al. (2012).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1964Clypostemma xyphiale Popov p. 64 figs. Pl 7, figs 1-5,7,8; text-figs 1,2
1971Clypostemma xyphiale Popov p. 168 figs. 110; Pl VIII fig 3-5
1980Clypostemma limna Lin p. 220 figs. Pl 2, fig 2; pl 5, fig 2; text-fig 6
1980Clypostemma xyphiale Lin p. 220 figs. Pl 3, fig 5
1980Clypostemma xyphiale Wang p. 140 fig. 19
1982Clemmys hydatidosa Hong p. 91 figs. Pl 12, figs 1-2; pl 13, fig 2; pl 14, figs 66-68
1982Clypostemma xyphiale Lin p. 81 figs. Pl 31, fig 6
1984Clypostemma xyphiale Hong p. 156 figs. Pl 70, fig 5; text-fig 29
1985Clypostemma pelila Zhang p. 27 figs. Pl 2, figs 11,14; text-fig 7
1985Clypostemma petila Zhang p. 27 figs. Pl 3, figs 11,14; text-fig 7
1985Clypostemma xyphiale Zhang p. 27 figs. Pl 2, figs 5,6; pl 3, fig 10
1990Clypostemma xyphiale Hong and Wang p. 101
1992Clypostemma xyphiale Lin p. 422 figs. Pl 164, figs 4,5; text-fig 41
1992Clypostemma petila Nel and Paicheler p. 176
1992Notonecta xyphiale Nel and Paicheler p. 176
2012Notonecta xyphiale Zhang et al. p. 160 figs. 1-3

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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
suborderHeteroptera
infraorderNepomorpha
superfamilyNotonectoidea
familyNotonectidae()
genusNotonecta
speciesxyphiale()

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.

Notonecta xyphiale Popov 1964
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Invalid names: Clemmys hydatidosa Hong 1982 [synonym], Clypostemma limna Lin 1980 [synonym], Clypostemma pelila Zhang 1985 [synonym], Clypostemma petila Zhang 1985 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available