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Saurophthiridae

Insecta - Siphonaptera - Saurophthiridae

Taxonomy
Saurophthiridae was named by Ponomarenko (1986). It is not extant. Its type is Saurophthirus.

It was assigned to Neoptera by Ponomarenko (1986); and to Saurophthiroidea by Rasnitsyn and Strelnikova (2017).

Subtaxa
Saurophthirus (type genus)

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1986Saurophthiridae Ponomarenko p. 110
2013Saurophthiridae Gao et al. p. 1261
2017Saurophthiridae Rasnitsyn and Strelnikova p. 172

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderSiphonapteraLatreille 1825
superfamilySaurophthiroidea
familySaurophthiridae
familySaurophthiridae

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.

Fm. †Saurophthiridae Ponomarenko 1986
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G. †Saurophthirus Ponomarenko 1976
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Saurophthirus exquisitus Gao et al. 2013
Saurophthirus laevigatus Zhang et al. 2020
Saurophthirus longipes Ponomarenko 1976
Invalid names: Saurophthiridae Gao et al. 2013 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available