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Minysporops dominicanus

Insecta - Hemiptera - Megarididae

Taxonomy
Minysporops dominicanus was named by Poinar and Heiss (2013). Its type specimen is OSU D-4-80, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic. It is the type species of Minysporops.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2013Minysporops dominicanus Poinar and Heiss p. 96 figs. 1-6

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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
infraorderPentatomomorphaLeston et al. 1954
superfamilyPentatomoideaLeach 1815
familyMegarididaeMcAtee and Malloch 1928
genusMinysporops
speciesdominicanus

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.

†Minysporops dominicanus Poinar and Heiss 2013
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available