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Protoscelis tuanwangensis

Insecta - Coleoptera - Anthribidae

Taxonomy
Protoscelis tuanwangensis was named by Hong and Wang (1990). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is 84GT1, west Tuanwang Village, Laiyang City, which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large shale in the Laiyang Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Protoscelis tuanwangensis Hong and Wang p. 114 figs. Pl 20, fig 2; text-fig 6.5.80

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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
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyAnthribidae()
subfamilyProtoscelinae
genusProtoscelis
speciestuanwangensis

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.

†Protoscelis tuanwangensis Hong and Wang 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available