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Gloxinius bifossatus

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Bethylidae

Taxonomy
Homoglenus bifossatus was named by Brues (1939). Its type specimen is MCZ 7679, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber (MCZ collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Gloxinius.

It was recombined as Epyris bifossatus by Azevedo and Azar (2012) and Azevedo et al. (2018); it was recombined as Gloxinius bifossatus by Colombo and Azevedo (2021) and Colombo et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1939Homoglenus bifossatus Brues p. 263
1987Homoglenus bifossatus Spahr p. 18
1988Homoglenus bifossatus Sorg p. 73
2012Epyris bifossatus Azevedo and Azar p. 217
2018Epyris bifossatus Azevedo et al. p. 160
2021Gloxinius bifossatus Colombo and Azevedo p. 75 fig. 23
2022Gloxinius bifossatus Colombo et al.

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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()
superfamilyChrysidoidea
familyBethylidaeForster 1856
subfamilyEpyrinae(Kieffer 1914)
genusGloxinius
speciesbifossatus()

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.

Gloxinius bifossatus Brues 1939
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Diagnosis
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