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Prochoristella pusilla

Insecta - Mecoptera - Mesopsychidae

Taxonomy
Prochoristella pusilla was named by Riek (1953). Its type specimen is AM F40061, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Warner's Bay, Belmont (AMF coll), which is in a Changhsingian pond chert in the Croudace Bay Formation of Australia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1953Prochoristella pusilla Riek p. 73 figs. Pl 6, fig 19; text-fig 42
1978Prochoristella pusilla Willmann p. 57
1997Prochoristella pusilla Novokshonov p. 70

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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
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
superfamilyMesopsychoidea
familyMesopsychidae
genusProchoristella
speciespusilla

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.

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Diagnosis
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