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Cydnus atavinus

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cydnidae

Taxonomy
Cydnopsis atavina was named by Heer (1853). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (Lavater'schen collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Cydnus atavinus by Förster (1891).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1853Cydnopsis atavina Heer p. 18 figs. Pl 1,fig 9
1891Cydnus atavinus Förster p. 509 figs. Pl 15, figs 20a,b

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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
infraorderPentatomomorphaLeston et al. 1954
superfamilyPentatomoideaLeach 1815
familyCydnidae()
tribeCydnini
genusCydnus
speciesatavinus()

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.

†Cydnus atavinus Heer 1853
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available