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Mesoraphidia medialis

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Siboptera medialis was named by Ponomarenko (1993). Its type specimen is PIN 4210/2230, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 4210, unknown layer), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large siltstone/marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Mesoraphidia medialis by Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger (2011) and Lu et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1993Siboptera medialis Ponomarenko p. 73 figs. Pl 8, fig 3; text-fig 13
2002Siboptera medialis Engel p. 20
2011Mesoraphidia medialis Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger p. 233
2015Mesoraphidia medialis Lu et al. p. 567

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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
familyMesoraphidiidae
subfamilyMesoraphidiinae
genusMesoraphidia
speciesmedialis()

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.

Mesoraphidia medialis Ponomarenko 1993
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Diagnosis
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