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Palaeopolybia anglica

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Vespidae

Taxonomy
Polybia anglica was named by Cockerell (1921). Its type specimen is BMNH H. 132, a forewing, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Palaeopolybia.

It was recombined as Palaeopolybia anglica by Antropov (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1921Polybia anglica Cockerell p. 20 fig. 23
2014Palaeopolybia anglica Antropov p. 396 figs. Pl 15, fig 2; text-fig 53

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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
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyVespoidea
familyVespidae()
subfamilyPolistinae()
genusPalaeopolybia
speciesanglica()

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.

†Palaeopolybia anglica Cockerell 1921
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Diagnosis
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