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Telmatrechus stali

Insecta - Hemiptera - Gerridae

Taxonomy
Hygrotrechus stali was named by Scudder (1879). Its type specimen is GSC 70, an exoskeleton (body), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is 3 miles up North Fork of Similkameen River, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine shale/siltstone in the Allenby Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Telmatrechus.

It was recombined as Gerris stali by Handlirsch (1910); it was recombined as Telmatrechus stali by Scudder (1890), Scudder (1895), Nel and Paicheler (1993), Andersen (1998) and Damgaard (2008).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Hygrotrechus stali Scudder p. 182
1890Telmatrechus stali Scudder p. 351
1895Telmatrechus stali Scudder p. 23
1910Gerris stali Handlirsch p. 126
1993Telmatrechus stali Nel and Paicheler p. 82
1998Telmatrechus stali Andersen p. 56
2008Telmatrechus stali Damgaard

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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
infraorderGerromorphaPopov 1971
superfamilyGerroideaLeach 1815
familyGerridaeLeach 1815
subfamilyGerrinaeLeach 1815
genusTelmatrechus
speciesstali()

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.

Telmatrechus stali Scudder 1879
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Diagnosis
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