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Electrobates spinipes

Insecta - Hemiptera - Gerridae

Taxonomy
Electrobates spinipes was named by Andersen and Poinar (1992). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber, El Valle locality (Poinar collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Yanigua Formation of the Dominican Republic. It is the type species of Electrobates.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Electrobates spinipes Andersen and Poinar p. 261 figs. 1-10
1998Electrobates spinipes Andersen p. 64 figs. 57-62, 120-123
2001Electrobates spinipes Andersen p. 419 figs. 5-10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderHeteroptera
infraorderGerromorphaPopov 1971
superfamilyGerroideaLeach 1815
familyGerridaeLeach 1815
subfamilyElectrobatinae
genusElectrobates
speciesspinipes

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.

Electrobates spinipes Andersen and Poinar 1992
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Electrobates spinipes (122982 type locality: 155411)