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Cryptochromus letatus

Insecta - Hemiptera - Lygaeidae

Taxonomy
Cryptochromus letatus was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is MCZ 757, 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 Cryptochromus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Cryptochromus letatus Scudder p. 409

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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
infraorderPentatomomorphaLeston et al. 1954
superfamilyLygaeoideaSchilling 1829
familyLygaeidaeSchilling 1829
genusCryptochromus
speciesletatus

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.

†Cryptochromus letatus Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available