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Grimaldiraphidia mitchelli

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Mesoraphidia mitchelli was named by Jepson et al. (2009). Its type specimen is MNEMG 2007.49, a wing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Bed DB66, Soft Cockle Beds, Swanage, which is in a Berriasian lagoonal siliciclastic in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

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

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2009Mesoraphidia mitchelli Jepson et al. p. 530 fig. 6
2011Grimaldiraphidia mitchelli Bechly and Wolf-Schwenninger p. 234
2015Grimaldiraphidia mitchelli Lu et al. p. 566

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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
tribeNanoraphidiini
genusGrimaldiraphidia
speciesmitchelli()

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.

Grimaldiraphidia mitchelli Jepson et al. 2009
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Diagnosis
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