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Miodytiscus hirtipes

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae

Taxonomy
Miodytiscus hirtipes was named by Wickham (1911). 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 Miodytiscus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Miodytiscus hirtipes Wickham p. 54
2001Miodytiscus hirtipes Nilsson p. 266

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyDytiscidae()
subfamilyDytiscinae
tribeDytiscini
genusMiodytiscus
specieshirtipes

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.

†Miodytiscus hirtipes Wickham 1911
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Diagnosis
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