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Mesoserphus karatavicus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Mesoserphidae

Taxonomy
Mesoserphus karatavicus was named by Kozlov (1968). Its type specimen is PIN 2554/1281, an exoskeleton, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2554), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan. It is the type species of Mesoserphus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Mesoserphus karatavicus Kozlov p. 239 figs. Pl 25, fig 2; text-fig 2

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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
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
infraorderProctotrupomorpha
superfamilyProctotrupoidea
familyMesoserphidae
genusMesoserphus
specieskaratavicus

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.

†Mesoserphus karatavicus Kozlov 1968
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Diagnosis
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