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Urocerites spectabilis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Siricidae

Taxonomy
Urocerites spectabilis was named by Heer (1867). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Radoboj (unspecified or Heer coll), which is in a Sarmatian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in Croatia.

It was recombined as Paururus spectabilis by Konow (1898); it was recombined as Sirex spectabilis by Brues (1926) and Taeger et al. (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1867Urocerites spectabilis Heer p. 38 figs. Pl 3, fig 1-3
1885Urocerites spectabilis Scudder p. 816 fig. 1097
1898Paururus spectabilis Konow p. 87
1926Sirex spectabilis Brues p. 169
1949Urocerites spectabilis Maa p. 119
2010Sirex spectabilis Taeger et al. p. 102
2012Urocerites spectabilis Schiff et al.

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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
superfamilySiricoidea
familySiricidae()
subfamilySiricinae
genusUrocerites
speciesspectabilis

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.

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Diagnosis
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