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Platycnemis antiqua

Insecta - Odonata - Platycnemididae

Taxonomy
Agrion antiquum was named by Pictet (1848). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Berendt collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

It was recombined as Coenagrion antiquum by Kirby (1890); it was recombined as Platycnemis antiqua by Nel and Papazian (1990) and Bechly (1998).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1848Agrion antiquum Pictet p. 7
1850Agrion antiquum Hagen p. 356
1856Agrion antiquum Pictet and Hagen p. 78 figs. Pl 4, fig 4; pl 8, fig 11
1890Coenagrion antiquum Kirby p. 175
1990Platycnemis antiqua Nel and Papazian p. 254
1998Platycnemis antiqua Bechly p. 52 figs. 10 11, 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
infraclassHydropalaeopteraRohdendorf 1969
Euhydropalaeoptera
OdonatopteraMartynov 1932
Palaeodonatoptera
Plesiodonatoptera
Apodonatoptera
Paneodonatoptera
RankNameAuthor
Neodonatoptera
Euodonatoptera
OdonatocladaBechly 1999
Nodialata
Discoidalia
Stigmoptera
Lobodonata
Panodonata
orderOdonata
suborderZygopteraSelys-Longchamps 1854
Euzygoptera
Coenagrionomorpha
Coenagrioniformia
Coenagrionida
superfamilyCoenagrionoidea
familyPlatycnemididaeJacobson and Bianchi 1905
genusPlatycnemis
speciesantiqua()

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.

Platycnemis antiqua Pictet 1848
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available