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Lithurge adamitica

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Megachilidae

Taxonomy
Apis adamitica was named by Heer (1864). Its type specimen is V.S.4, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Oeningen (Zurich collection), which is in a Sarmatian crater lake limestone in the Upper Freshwater-Molasse Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Lithurgus adamiticus by Cockerell (1909); it was recombined as Lithurge adamitica by Zeuner and Manning (1976).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1864Apis adamitica Heer p. 386 fig. 287
1867Apis adamitica Heer p. 4 figs. Pl 3, fig 11
1909Lithurgus adamiticus Cockerell p. 313
1976Lithurge adamitica Zeuner and Manning p. 176

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyMegachilidae
subfamilyLithurginae
tribeLithurgini
genusLithurgeLatreille 1825
speciesadamitica()

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.

Lithurge adamitica Heer 1864
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