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Nyktalos uhleri

Insecta - Hemiptera - Fulgoridae

Taxonomy
Nyctophylax uhleri was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is MCZ 3517, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Nyctophylax, Nyktalos.

It was recombined as Nyktalos uhleri by Metcalf (1952) and Szwedo et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Nyctophylax uhleri Scudder p. 279 figs. Pl 19 fig 11
1952Nyktalos uhleri Metcalf p. 230
2004Nyktalos uhleri Szwedo et al. p. 54

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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
HemelytrataFallen 1829
suborderFulgoromorpha(Evans 1946)
informalEucixioidian
superfamilyFulgoroidea
familyFulgoridae
genusNyktalos
speciesuhleri()

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.

Nyktalos uhleri Scudder 1890
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