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Pararaphidia deserta

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Alloraphidia deserta was named by Ponomarenko (1988). Its type specimen is PIN 3559/2748, a wing (fore & hindwing), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559), which is in an Aptian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.

It was recombined as Pararaphidia deserta by Willmann (1994), Engel (2002) and Lu et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1988Alloraphidia deserta Ponomarenko p. 79 figs. Pl xiv fig 3; Fig 9
1993Alloraphidia deserta Ponomarenko p. 76 figs. Pl 9, fig 2; text-fig 18
1994Pararaphidia deserta Willmann p. 178 fig. 6m
2002Pararaphidia deserta Engel p. 15
2015Pararaphidia deserta Lu et al. p. 565

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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
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
orderRaphidioptera()
suborderRaphidiomorpha
Raphidiformia
familyMesoraphidiidae
subfamilyAlloraphidiinae()
genusPararaphidia
speciesdeserta()

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.

Pararaphidia deserta Ponomarenko 1988
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Diagnosis
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