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Nyktalos vigil

Insecta - Hemiptera - Fulgoridae

Taxonomy
Nyctophylax vigil was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is MCZ 1130, 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 was recombined as Nyktalos vigil by Szwedo et al. (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Nyctophylax vigil Scudder p. 280 figs. Pl 19 fig 8
2004Nyktalos vigil 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
speciesvigil()

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 vigil Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
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