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Taimyrisphex pristinus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Falsiformicidae

Taxonomy
Taimyrisphex pristinus was named by Evans (1973). Its type specimen is PIN 3130/16, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3130), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1973Taimyrisphex pristinus Evans p. 168 fig. 1,2
1987Taimyrisphex pristinus Spahr p. 41

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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
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyVespoidea
familyFalsiformicidae
genusTaimyrisphex
speciespristinus

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.

†Taimyrisphex pristinus Evans 1973
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available