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Roussyana palmnickenensis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Apis palmnickenensis was named by Roussy (1937). Its type specimen is MfN MB.I.1945, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber (Roussy collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Electrapis (Roussyana) palmnickenensis by Manning (1960) and Zeuner and Manning (1976); it was recombined as Trigona (Roussyana) palmnickenensis by Kerr and da Cunha (1976); it was recombined as Electrapis palmnickenensis by Spahr (1987); it was recombined as Roussyana palmnickenensis by Engel (2001) and Engel (2021).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Apis palmnickenensis Roussy p. 66 fig. 13
1960Electrapis (Roussyana) palmnickenensis Manning p. 306
1970Electrapis minuta Kelner-Pillault p. 16 figs. Pl. 2, Figs. 3, 5B
1976Trigona (Roussyana) palmnickenensis Kerr and da Cunha p. 39
1976Electrapis minuta Morris p. 257
1976Electrapis (Roussyana) palmnickenensis Zeuner and Manning p. 233 figs. Pl. 3, Figs. 1, 2
1987Electrapis minuta Spahr p. 12
1987Electrapis palmnickenensis Spahr p. 12
2001Roussyana palmnickenensis Engel
2021Roussyana palmnickenensis Engel p. 52

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyApidae()
subfamilyApinae()
Apiti
CorbiculataShuckard 1866
tribeMelikertini
genusRoussyana()
speciespalmnickenensis()

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.

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Invalid names: Electrapis minuta Kelner-Pillault 1970 [synonym]
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: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation Apis palmnickenensis (164667)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Electrapis minuta (123757)