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Tricheopteryx florissantensis

Insecta - Trichoptera - Limnephilidae

Taxonomy
Platyphylax (Eopteryx) florissantensis was named by Cockerell (1907). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado. It is the type species of Tricheopteryx.

It was recombined as Tricheopteryx florissantensis by Cockerell (1927).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1907Platyphylax (Eopteryx) florissantensis Cockerell p. 608 fig. 4
1927Tricheopteryx florissantensis Cockerell p. 184

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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
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
RankNameAuthor
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
—Metamphiesmenoptera
—Euamphiesmenoptera
—Panendymenoptera
—Endymenoptera
—Stelloptera
orderTrichopteraKirby 1815
—Eutrichoptera
suborderIntegripalpia
infraorderPhryganides()
—Plenitentoria(Weaver 1984)
superfamilyLimnephiloideaKolenati 1848
familyLimnephilidaeKolenati 1848
subfamilyLimnephilinaeKolenati 1848
tribeStenophylacini(Schmid 1955)
genusTricheopteryxMcLachlan 1871
speciesflorissantensis()

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
No diagnoses are available