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Palaeotorymus aciculatus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Torymidae

Taxonomy
Palaeotorymus aciculatus was named by Brues (1910). Its type specimen is MCZ 2085, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1910Palaeotorymus aciculatus Brues p. 21 fig. 12
1980Palaeotorymus aciculatus Grissell p. 257

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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
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
infraorderProctotrupomorpha
—Microprocta
superfamilyChalcidoidea
familyTorymidaeWalker 1833
genusPalaeotorymus
speciesaciculatus

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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Diagnosis
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