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Palaeohelicopsyche serricornis

Insecta - Trichoptera - Helicopsychidae

Taxonomy

Palaeohelicopsyche serricornis was named by Ulmer (1912). It is an inclusion in amber.

Synonyms

Palaeohelicopsyche groteae was named by Johanson and Wichard (1997). Its type specimen is GPIH 3776, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was synonymized subjectively with Palaeohelicopsyche serricornis by Wichard (2013).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1912	Palaeohelicopsyche serricornis Ulmer p. 309 figs. 438-442
1997	Palaeohelicopsyche serricornis Johanson and Wichard p. 104 figs. Pl 1a,b; text-fig 1
1997	Palaeohelicopsyche groteae Johanson and Wichard p. 105 figs. Pl 2a,b;; text-figs 2-6
2013	Palaeohelicopsyche serricornis Wichard p. 132 figs. 81-84

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata

Rank	Name	Author
—	Panorpida
superorder	Amphiesmenoptera	Kiriakoff 1948
—	Metamphiesmenoptera
—	Euamphiesmenoptera
—	Panendymenoptera
—	Endymenoptera
—	Stelloptera
order	Trichoptera	Kirby 1815
—	Eutrichoptera
suborder	Integripalpia
infraorder	Phryganides	()
—	Brevitentoria	(Weaver 1984)
superfamily	Sericostomatoidea
family	Helicopsychidae	()
genus	Palaeohelicopsyche
species	serricornis

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.

†Palaeohelicopsyche serricornis Ulmer 1912

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Invalid names: Palaeohelicopsyche groteae Johanson and Wichard 1997 [synonym]

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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Priabonian or 38.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Palaeohelicopsyche serricornis (123927 123928 124073 124194) Palaeohelicopsyche serricornis, Palaeohelicopsyche groteae (110735)