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Ethmia mortuella

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Depressariidae

Taxonomy
Psecadia mortuella was named by Scudder (1890). Its type specimen is MCZ 4155, 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 was recombined as Ethmia mortuella by Sohn et al. (2012).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1890Psecadia mortuella Scudder p. 603 figs. Pl 15 figs 12, 17
2012Ethmia mortuella Sohn et al. p. 50

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
—Metamphiesmenoptera
RankNameAuthor
—Euamphiesmenoptera
—Panendymenoptera
—Endymenoptera
—Stelloptera
orderLepidoptera
—Angiospermivora
suborderGlossata()
—CoelolepidaNielsen and Kristensen 1996
infraorderHeteroneuraTillyard 1918
—EulepidopteraKiriakoff 1948
—Euheteroneura
—DitrysiaBorner 1925
—ApoditrysiaMinet 1983
superfamilyGelechioideaStainton 1854
familyDepressariidaeMeyrick 1883
subfamilyEthmiinae()
genusEthmia
speciesmortuella()

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.

†Ethmia mortuella Scudder 1890
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available