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Cacalydus lapsus

Insecta - Hemiptera

Taxonomy
Cacalydus lapsus was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is PU 1.508, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (former Princeton collection), which is in an Eocene lacustrine - large shale/volcaniclastic in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Cacalydus lapsus Scudder p. 419 figs. Pl 25 fig 12
1977Cacalydus lapsus Štys and Říha p. 181

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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
infraorderPentatomomorphaLeston et al. 1954
superfamilyCoreoideaReuter 1910
genusCacalydus
specieslapsus

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.

Cacalydus lapsus Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
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