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Taphaeus verus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Braconidae

Taxonomy
Diospilus verus was named by Theobald (1937). Its type specimen is Coll Museum Paris Am 23, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Aix-en-Provence (MNHN Paris Coll), which is in a Chattian lacustrine - large limestone in the Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation of France.

It was recombined as Taphaeus verus by Belokobylskij (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Diospilus verus Theobald p. 309 figs. Pl XXVI fig 2; Pl XXIV fig 11
2014Taphaeus verus Belokobylskij p. 382

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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
superfamilyIchneumonoidea
familyBraconidae
subfamilyBrachistinae()
tribeDiospilini()
genusTaphaeusWesmael 1835
speciesverus()

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.

Taphaeus verus Theobald 1937
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Diagnosis
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