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Amnestus electricus

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cydnidae

Taxonomy
Amnestus electricus was named by Thomas (1994). Its type specimen is AMNH DR-10-22, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber, La Toca mine (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the La Toca Formation of the Dominican Republic.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Amnestus electricus Thomas pp. 305-307 fig. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderHeteroptera
infraorderPentatomomorphaLeston et al. 1954
superfamilyPentatomoideaLeach 1815
familyCydnidae()
subfamilyAmnestinaeHart 1919
genusAmnestusDallas 1851
specieselectricus

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.

Amnestus electricus Thomas 1994
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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: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Amnestus electricus (122982 type locality: 123393)