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Athalia wheeleri

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Athaliidae

Taxonomy
Eriocampa wheeleri was named by Cockerell (1906). Its type specimen is AMNH Fl 18871, an exoskeleton (body with wings attached, missing abdomen ), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

It was recombined as Athalia wheeleri by Zhelochovtzev and Rasnitsyn (1972).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1906Eriocampa wheeleri Cockerell p. 500 figs. Fig 2
1908Eriocampa wheeleri Rohwer p. 525
1927Eriocampa wheeleri Cockerell p. 429
1968Eriocampa wheeleri Rice p. 7
1972Athalia wheeleri Zhelochovtzev and Rasnitsyn p. 317
2010Eriocampa wheeleri Taeger et al. p. 279

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
superfamilyTenthredinoidea
familyAthaliidae()
genusAthalia
specieswheeleri()

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.

Athalia wheeleri Cockerell 1906
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Chadronian or 37.20000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Eriocampa wheeleri (type locality: 106381 124680)