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Geranchon petrorum

Insecta - Hemiptera

Taxonomy
Lachnus petrorum was named by Scudder (1877). Its type specimen is Dawson coll 19, a wing (fragment of a wing), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Quesnel, which is in a Priabonian lacustrine shale in the Australian Creek Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Geranchon.

It was recombined as Gerancon petrorum by Scudder (1894); it was recombined as Geranchon petrorum by Scudder (1890), Scudder (1895) and Heie and Wegierek (2011).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Lachnus petrorum Scudder
1890Geranchon petrorum Scudder p. 249
1894Gerancon petrorum Scudder p. 352 figs. Pl 105, fig 7
1895Geranchon petrorum Scudder p. 7
2011Geranchon petrorum Heie and Wegierek p. 37

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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
suborderSternorrhyncha()
—AphidiformesSchlee 1969
infraorderAphidomorpha
superfamilyAphidoidea
genusGeranchon
speciespetrorum()

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.

†Geranchon petrorum Scudder 1877
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Diagnosis
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