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Velocorixa ponomarenkoi

Insecta - Hemiptera - Corixidae

Taxonomy
Velocorixa ponomarenkoi was named by Popov (1986). Its type specimen is PIN 3152/2617, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Myangad locality, Section 221/17, which is in an Aptian lacustrine mudstone in the Gurvan-Eren Formation of Mongolia. It is the type species of Velocorixa.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Velocorixa ponomarenkoi Popov p. 59 figs. 28; Pl II fig 1-7
1993Velocorixa ponomarenkoi Nel and Paicheler p. 15

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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
infraorderNepomorpha
superfamilyCorixoideaEnderlein 1912
familyCorixidaeLeach 1815
subfamilyVelocorixinae
genusVelocorixa
speciesponomarenkoi

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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