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Baissoptera pulchra

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Baissopteridae

Taxonomy
Cratoraphidia pulchra was named by Martins-Neto and Nel (1993). Its type specimen is GP/1T-1673, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Massapê Farm, near Nova Olinda (Crato), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large limestone in the Crato Formation of Brazil.

It was recombined as Baissoptera pulchra by Engel (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Cratoraphidia pulchra Martins-Neto and Nel p. 427 figs. 1-3
2002Baissoptera pulchra Engel p. 16
2002Cratoraphidia pulchra Martins-Neto p. 38

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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
—Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
orderRaphidioptera()
suborderRaphidiomorpha
familyBaissopteridae
genusBaissoptera
speciespulchra()

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.

†Baissoptera pulchra Martins-Neto and Nel 1993
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available