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Stenovelia nigra

Insecta - Hemiptera - Veliidae

Taxonomy
Stenovelia nigra was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is MCZ 772, 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 Stenovelia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Stenovelia nigra Scudder p. 350 figs. Pl 22 figs 8, 14
1993Stenovelia nigra Nel and Paicheler p. 79
1998Stenovelia nigra Andersen p. 78

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderHeteroptera
infraorderGerromorphaPopov 1971
familyVeliidae()
genusStenovelia
speciesnigra

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.

Stenovelia nigra Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
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