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Cretophotina tristriata

Insecta - Mantodea

Taxonomy
Cretophotina tristriata was named by Gratshev and Zherikhin (1993). Its type specimen is PIN 3064/8585, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 3064, bed 31), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large marl/siltstone in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Cretophotina tristriata Gratshev and Zherikhin p. 150 figs. Pl 9, figs 1-3; text-figs 1a-c

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderMantodeaBurmeister 1838
genusCretophotina
speciestristriata

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.

†Cretophotina tristriata Gratshev and Zherikhin 1993
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available