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Florissantoraphidia funerata

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Raphidiidae

Taxonomy
Raphidia funerata was named by Engel (2003). Its type specimen is NHM In. 26922, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (BMNH Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Florissantoraphidia.

It was recombined as Florissantoraphidia funerata by Makarkin and Archibald (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2003Raphidia funerata Engel p. 124
2014Florissantoraphidia funerata Makarkin and Archibald p. 434 fig. 21,22

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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
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
orderRaphidioptera()
suborderRaphidiomorpha
Raphidiformia
Euraphidioptera
infraorderNeoraphidioptera
familyRaphidiidae
genusFlorissantoraphidia
speciesfunerata()

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
No diagnoses are available