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Ambracyptus minutissimus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy
Paracyptus minutissima was named by Seevers (1971). Its type specimen is UCMP 12766, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is UCMP B-1402, Simojovel area, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.

It was recombined as Ambracyptus minutissimus by Lundgren (1984); it was misspelled as Ambracyptus minutissima by Yamamoto et al. (2016).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Paracyptus minutissima Seevers p. 82 figs. 2a-c
1984Ambracyptus minutissimus Lundgren p. 163
2016Ambracyptus minutissima Yamamoto et al. p. S4

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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
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyStaphylinoidea
familyStaphylinidae()
subfamilyAleocharinae()
tribeMesoporini()
genusAmbracyptus
speciesminutissimus()

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.

Ambracyptus minutissimus Seevers 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available