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Archankothrips varicornis

Insecta - Thysanoptera - Melanthripidae

Taxonomy
Melanothrips varicornis was named by Bagnall (1923). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Archankothrips variicornis by Bagnall (1926); it was recombined as Archankothrips varicornis by Mound (1968), Schliephake (2001) and Ulitzka (2017).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1923Melanothrips varicornis Bagnall p. 36
1926Archankothrips variicornis Bagnall p. 17
1968Archankothrips varicornis Mound p. 153 fig. 75
2001Archankothrips varicornis Schliephake p. 18
2001Archankothrips zawirskae Schliephake p. 19 figs. Pl 2, fig 1; text-fig 1
2017Archankothrips varicornis Ulitzka p. 206 fig. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Clareocercaria
—Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
—Condylognatha
superorderThripidaFallen 1814
orderThysanopteraHaliday 1836
suborderTerebrantiaHaliday 1836
familyMelanthripidae()
genusArchankothrips
speciesvaricornis()

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.

†Archankothrips varicornis Bagnall 1923
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Invalid names: Archankothrips zawirskae Schliephake 2001 [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 (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Archankothrips varicornis, Archankothrips zawirskae (120813)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Archankothrips varicornis (196706) Melanothrips varicornis (type locality: 123927)