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Oligocassida melaena

Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

Taxonomy
Oligocassida melaena was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Nimes. Museum Ni 18, an exoskeleton (body missing head), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Les Fumades, which is in an Eocene lacustrine marl in France. It is the type species of Oligocassida.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Oligocassida melaena Theobald p. 121 figs. Pl II fig 10

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyChrysomeloidea
familyChrysomelidae()
subfamilyCassidinaeGyllenhal 1813
genusOligocassida
speciesmelaena

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.

†Oligocassida melaena Theobald 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available