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Forficula paleoligura

Insecta - Dermaptera - Forficulidae

Taxonomy
Forficula paleoligura was named by Nel et al. (1994). Its type specimen is MNHN-LP-R.10398, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Camoins-les-Bains (MNHN coll), which is in an Oligocene lacustrine marl in France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Forficula paleoligura Nel et al. p. 254 fig. 1,4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—PolyneopteraMartynov 1938
—Haplocercata
orderDermaptera
—PandermapteraEngel
—ApodermapteraEngel
suborderNeodermaptera
infraorderEpidermaptera
—Eteodermaptera
—Eudermaptera()
superfamilyForficuloidea
familyForficulidae
subfamilyForficulinae
genusForficula
speciespaleoligura

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.

†Forficula paleoligura Nel et al. 1994
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available