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Pepsinites contentus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Pompilidae

Taxonomy
Cryptochilus contentus was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Nimes. Museum Ni 56, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Célas, Gard (Museum Marseille collection), which is in a Priabonian lacustrine marl in France.

It was recombined as Pepsinites contentus by Rodriguez et al. (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Cryptochilus contentus Theobald p. 129 figs. Pl II fig 17; Pl X fig 3
2017Pepsinites contentus Rodriguez et al. p. 19

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyPompiloideaLatreille 1804
familyPompilidaeLatreille 1804
subfamilyPepsinaeLepeletier 1845
genusPepsinites
speciescontentus()

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.

†Pepsinites contentus Theobald 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available