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Lithomantis woodwardi

Insecta - Palaeodictyoptera - Lithomanteidae

Taxonomy
Lithomantis woodwardi was named by Brongniart (1890). Its type specimen is MNHN.F.R51048, an exoskeleton (fore and hind wings, prothoracic lobes, fragment of fore leg), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France. It is the type species of Homoioptera.

It was recombined as Homoioptera woodwardi by Brongniart (1894), Handlirsch (1906), Lameere (1917), Handlirsch (1919), Handlirsch (1922) and Kukalová (1969).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Lithomantis woodwardi Brongniart p. 156 figs. Pl 1
1894Homoioptera woodwardi Brongniart p. 353 figs. Pl 20, fig 10; text-fig 15
1906Homoioptera woodwardi Handlirsch pp. 91-92 figs. Pl XI fig 1
1917Homoioptera woodwardi Lameere p. 151
1919Homoioptera woodwardi Handlirsch p. 526
1922Homoioptera woodwardi Handlirsch p. 41
1969Homoioptera woodwardi Kukalová p. 444 fig. 29

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
superorderPalaeodictyopterida(Bechly 1996)
orderPalaeodictyoptera
superfamilyEugereonoideaSinitshenkova 2002
familyLithomanteidae()
genusLithomantis
specieswoodwardi

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.

†Lithomantis woodwardi Brongniart 1890
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Diagnosis
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