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Sharasargus spiniger

Insecta - Diptera - Archisargidae

Taxonomy
Sharasargus spiniger was named by Mostovski (1996). Its type specimen is PIN 2784/344, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2784), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Sharasargus spiniger Mostovski p. 124 figs. 20-22
1998Sharasargus spiniger Nagatomi and Yang p. 169 figs. 186-188
2014Sharasargus spiniger Zhang p. 868
2016Sharasargus spiniger Grimaldi and Barden p. 27

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
superfamilyArchisargoidea
familyArchisargidae
subfamilyArchisarginae
genusSharasargus
speciesspiniger

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.

Sharasargus spiniger Mostovski 1996
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available