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Prosoeca (Palembolus) florigera

Insecta - Diptera - Nemestrinidae

Taxonomy
Palembolus florigerus was named by Scudder (1878). Its type specimen is 405, an exoskeleton (wonderfully preserved), and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Palembolus.

It was recombined as Prosoeca (Palembolus) florigera by Bequaert and Carpenter (1936) and Dikow (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1878Palembolus florigerus Scudder pp. 528-529
1885Palembolus florigerus Scudder p. 808 fig. 1076
1936Prosoeca (Palembolus) florigera Bequaert and Carpenter p. 403 figs. 6, 7.5
2009Prosoeca (Palembolus) florigera Dikow p. 145

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
RankNameAuthor
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Homeodactyla
superfamilyNemestrinoideaMacquart 1834
familyNemestrinidaeMacquart 1834
subfamilyNemestrininae
genusProsoecaSchiner 1867
subgenusPalembolus()
speciesflorigera()

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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