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Alexahymen aestatis

Insecta - Megasecoptera - Bardohymenidae

Taxonomy
Aspidothorax aestatis was named by Brauckmann (1991). Its type specimen is Wuppertal Museum Coll. G. Sommer, a wing (right wing), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Piesberg quarry, "Flöz Zweibänke" (Museum Wuppertal collection), which is in a Westphalian D lacustrine deltaic claystone in Germany.

It was recombined as Alexahymen aestatis by Pecharová et al. (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1991Aspidothorax aestatis Brauckmann p. 30 figs. 3-4
2002Aspidothorax aestatis Brauckmann and Herd p. 52 figs. Pl 2, fig 5; text-figs 15,16
2020Alexahymen aestatis Pecharová et al. p. 8 figs. 5A, 6B

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
superorderPalaeodictyopterida(Bechly 1996)
Megasecopteromorpha
orderMegasecoptera
familyBardohymenidae
genusAlexahymen
speciesaestatis()

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.

Alexahymen aestatis Brauckmann 1991
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Diagnosis
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