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Orchesia (Orchestera) turkini

Insecta - Coleoptera - Melandryidae

Taxonomy
Orchesia (Orchestera) turkini was named by Alekseev and Bukejs (2012). Its type specimen is AWI-015, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Alekseev coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Orchesia turkini by Bukejs and Alekseev (2015) and Alekseev and Bukejs (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2012Orchesia (Orchestera) turkini Alekseev and Bukejs p. 572 fig. 1,2
2015Orchesia (Orchestera) turkini Alekseev and Bukejs p. 593
2015Orchesia turkini Bukejs and Alekseev p. 358
2021Orchesia turkini Alekseev and Bukejs p. 162

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyTenebrionoidea
familyMelandryidae()
subfamilyMelandryinae
tribeOrchesiiniMulsant 1856
genusOrchesiaLatreille 1807
subgenusOrchesteraGuillebeau 1887
speciesturkini

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.

†Orchesia (Orchestera) turkini Alekseev and Bukejs 2012
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation Orchesia turkini (123419)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Orchesia turkini (124519)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Orchesia turkini (type locality: 139928 152000)