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Mesoschizopus elegans

Insecta - Coleoptera - Schizopodidae

Taxonomy
Mesoschizopus elegans was named by Cai et al. (2015). Its type specimen is NIGP 157736, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Bisiyingzi township, Ningcheng County, which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China. It is the type species of Mesoschizopus.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Mesoschizopus elegans Cai et al. p. 491 figs. 2-4

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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
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderElateriformiaCrowson 1960
superfamilyBuprestoidea
familySchizopodidaeLeConte 1859
genusMesoschizopus
specieselegans

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.

†Mesoschizopus elegans Cai et al. 2015
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available