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Archaeoptilites lucasi

Insecta

Taxonomy
Archaeoptilus lacazei was named by Brongniart (1894). Its type specimen is MNHN.F.R51284, a wing (fragment), and it is an impression. Its type locality is Commentry (MNHN Brongniart coll), which is in a Gzhelian lacustrine deltaic shale in the Commentry Shales Formation of France. It is the type species of Archaeoptilites.

It was recombined as Archaeoptilites lucasi by Handlirsch (1919) and Handlirsch (1922).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1894Archaeoptilus lacazei Brongniart p. 377 figs. Pl 21, fig 7
1906Archaeoptilus lucasi Handlirsch p. 117
1917Archaeoptilus lacazei Lameere p. 157
1919Archaeoptilites lucasi Handlirsch p. 534
1922Archaeoptilites lucasi Handlirsch p. 51

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassPalaeopteraMartynov 1923
genusArchaeoptilites
specieslucasi()

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.

†Archaeoptilites lucasi Brongniart 1894
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Diagnosis
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