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Matuna bechlyi

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Taxonomy
Matuna bechlyi was named by Stebner and Solórzano Kraemer (2014). Its type specimen is UCMP 10375, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is UCMP B-6899, Simojovel area, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico. It is the type species of Matuna.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2014Matuna bechlyi Stebner and Solórzano Kraemer p. 12 figs. Pl 2, figs B,C; text-figs 6A-D

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyPsychodoidea
familyPsychodidae
subfamilyPsychodinae
genusMatuna
speciesbechlyi

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.

†Matuna bechlyi Stebner and Solórzano Kraemer 2014
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Diagnosis
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