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Plesioschwinzia pulchella

Insecta - Orthoptera - Locustopsidae

Taxonomy
Locustopsis pulchella was named by Zessin (1983). Its type specimen is LD 1071/1(2), a tegmen, and it is an impression. Its type locality is Dobbertin, Mecklenburg (Zessin collection), which is in a Toarcian marine claystone in Germany.

It was recombined as Plesioschwinzia pulchella by Gorochov and Coram (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1983Locustopsis pulchella Zessin p. 197 figs. 23, 65
1988Locustopsis pulchella Zessin p. 112
2023Plesioschwinzia pulchella Gorochov and Coram p. 202

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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
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
orderOrthoptera
suborderCaelifera
infraorderAcridideaMacLeay 1821
Acridomorpha
superfamilyLocustopsoideaHandlirsch 1906
familyLocustopsidae
subfamilyLocustopsinaeHandlirsch 1906
genusPlesioschwinzia
speciespulchella()

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