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Paonaupactus microphthalmus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Protonaupactus microphthalmus was named by Zherikhin (1971). Its type specimen is PIN 964/2, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Yantarnyi village (PIN collection 964), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Paonaupactus microphthalmus by Legalov (2019) and Legalov and Poinar (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Protonaupactus microphthalmus Zherikhin p. 205 figs. Pl 10, fig 2; text-fig 3
2015Protonaupactus microphthalmus Legalov p. 1493
2019Paonaupactus microphthalmus Legalov p. 52
2021Paonaupactus microphthalmus Legalov and Poinar p. 2221

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
RankNameAuthor
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
—Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyEntiminaeSchoenherr 1823
tribeAnypotactini()
genusPaonaupactus
speciesmicrophthalmus()

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.

†Paonaupactus microphthalmus Zherikhin 1971
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available