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Pronymphes mengeana

Insecta - Neuroptera - Nymphidae

Taxonomy
Nymphes mengeanus was named by Hagen (1856). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Danziger Naturkundemuseum Menge collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland. It is the type species of Pronymphes.

It was recombined as Pronymphes mengeanus by Krüger (1923) and MacLeod (1970); it was recombined as Pronymphes mengeana by Shi et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1856Nymphes mengeanus Hagen p. 85 figs. Pl 8, fig 15
1923Pronymphes mengeanus Krüger p. 75
1970Pronymphes mengeanus MacLeod p. 162 figs. 5-7
2015Pronymphes mengeana Shi et al. p. 485

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
Metaxyneuroptera
Eidoneuroptera
orderNeuroptera
Euneuroptera
Neoneuroptera
Geoneuroptera
suborderMyrmeleontiformiaHenry 1982
superfamilyMyrmeleontoidea
familyNymphidaeRambur 1842
subfamilyNymphinaeRambur 1842
genusPronymphes
speciesmengeana()

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.

Pronymphes mengeana Hagen 1856
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available