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Mesocephus sibiricus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Cephidae

Taxonomy
Mesocephus sibiricus was named by Rasnitsyn (1968). Its type specimen is PIN 1989/2608, a wing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 1989), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large siltstone/marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Mesocephus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Mesocephus sibiricus Rasnitsyn p. 197 fig. 5
2010Mesocephus sibiricus Taeger et al. p. 50
2015Mesocephus sibiricus Archibald and Rasnitsyn p. 210
2016Mesocephus sibiricus Kopylov and Rasnitsyn p. 80 figs. 8-12

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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
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
superfamilyCephoidea
familyCephidae
subfamilyCephinae
genusMesocephus
speciessibiricus

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.

Mesocephus sibiricus Rasnitsyn 1968
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Diagnosis
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