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Mesitius

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Bethylidae

Taxonomy
Mesitius was named by Spinola (1851). It is extant. It is the type genus of Mesitiini.

It was assigned to Bethylinae by Ashmead (1893) and Kieffer (1905); to Bethylidae by Cockerell (1921) and Antropov (2014); and to Mesitiinae by Azevedo et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1851Mesitius Spinola
1893Mesitius Ashmead p. 62
1905Mesitius Kieffer p. 384
1921Mesitius Cockerell p. 21
2014Mesitius Antropov p. 394
2018Mesitius Azevedo et al. p. 197

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyChrysidoidea
familyBethylidaeForster 1856
subfamilyMesitiinae()
genusMesitiusSpinola 1851

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.

G. Mesitius Spinola 1851
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available