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Mesoraphidia koreensis

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Mesoraphidia koreensis was named by Engel et al. (2006) [Kyungnam National Science High School]. Its type specimen is KS-5024, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Hotan-Dong, Jinju City, which is in an Albian lacustrine - large shale in the Jinju Formation of South Korea.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2006Mesoraphidia koreensis Engel et al. p. 250 fig. 1,3,4
2015Mesoraphidia koreenensis Lu et al. p. 566

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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
subfamilyMesoraphidiinae
genusMesoraphidia
specieskoreensis

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.

Mesoraphidia koreensis Engel et al. 2006
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available