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Protopeplus cretaceus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Taxonomy
Protopeplus cretaceus was named by Cai and Huang (2014). Its type specimen is NIGP 152731, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar. It is the type species of Protopeplus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2014Protopeplus cretaceus Cai and Huang p. 814 figs. 1-3

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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
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyStaphylinoidea
familyStaphylinidae()
subfamilyMicropeplinae()
genusProtopeplus
speciescretaceus

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.

†Protopeplus cretaceus Cai and Huang 2014
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available