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Eocercopis similis

Insecta - Hemiptera - Progonocimicidae

Taxonomy
Cercoprisca similis was named by Handlirsch (1939). Its type specimen is Ernst Moritz Arndt Universitat Greifswald 57/4, a forewing, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Greifswald collection), which is in a Toarcian offshore claystone in Germany.

It was recombined as Eocercopis similis by Popov and Wootton (1977) and Dong et al. (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Cercoprisca similis Handlirsch p. 143 figs. Pl 16, fig 297
1977Eocercopis similis Popov and Wootton p. 337 fig. 4
2014Eocercopis similis Dong et al. p. 774

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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
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderColeorrhynchaMyers and China 1929
superfamilyProgonocimicoideaHandlirsch 1906
familyProgonocimicidae
genusEocercopis
speciessimilis()

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.

Eocercopis similis Handlirsch 1939
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Diagnosis
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