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Orthomylacris pittstoniana

Insecta - Blattodea - Mylacridae

Taxonomy
Lithomylacris pittstonianum was named by Scudder (1879). It is an impression. Its type locality is Port Griffith railway cut, near Pittston, which is in a Westphalian D terrestrial siliciclastic in the Llewellyn Formation of Pennsylvania.

It was corrected as Lithomylacris pittstoniana by Scudder (1895); it was considered a nomen dubium by Handlirsch (1906); it was recombined as Orthomylacris pittstoniana by Handlirsch (1920) and Handlirsch (1922).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1879Lithomylacris pittstonianum Scudder p. 50 figs. Pl 5 figs 4, 10
1895Lithomylacris pittstoniana Scudder p. 50
1920Orthomylacris pittstoniana Handlirsch p. 454
1922Orthomylacris pittstoniana Handlirsch p. 176

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
Holopandictyoptera
superorderDictyopteraLatreille 1829
orderBlattodea(Latreille 1810)
familyMylacridae()
genusOrthomylacris
speciespittstoniana()

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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