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Xenosycorax engeli

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Taxonomy
Xenosycorax engeli was named by Azar and Salamé (2015). Its type specimen is AMNH NJ-63, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Sunrise landing, East Brunswick, which is in a Turonian terrestrial amber in the Raritan Formation of New Jersey. It is the type species of Xenosycorax.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Xenosycorax engeli Azar and Salamé p. 542 figs. 1-10

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyPsychodoidea
familyPsychodidae
subfamilySycoracinaeJung 1954
genusXenosycorax
speciesengeli

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Xenosycorax engeli Azar and Salamé 2015
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available