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Eoptychopterina postica

Insecta - Diptera - Ptychopteridae

Taxonomy
Eoptychopterina postica was named by Liu et al. (2012). Its type specimen is CNU-DIP-NN2011001, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Daohugou (CNU 2011 collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Jiulongshan Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2012Eoptychopterina postica Liu et al. p. 56 fig. 1,2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
infraorderPtychopteromorpha
familyPtychopteridaeOsten-Sacken 1862
subfamilyEoptychopterinae
genusEoptychopterina
speciespostica

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.

†Eoptychopterina postica Liu et al. 2012
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available