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Polydrosus (Palaeodrosus) archaetypus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Curculionidae

Taxonomy
Polydrosus (Palaeodrosus) archaetypus was named by Zherikhin (1971). Its type specimen is PIN 964/3, 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 Polydrusus (Palaeodrosus) archetypus by Yunakov and Kirejtshuk (2011), Legalov (2015), Legalov (2019) and Legalov and Poinar (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Polydrosus (Palaeodrosus) archaetypus Zherikhin p. 206 fig. 4
2011Polydrusus (Palaeodrosus) archetypus Yunakov and Kirejtshuk p. 94
2015Polydrusus (Palaeodrosus) archetypus Legalov p. 1493
2019Polydrusus (Palaeodrosus) archetypus Legalov p. 54
2021Polydrusus (Palaeodrosus) archetypus 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
Aparaglossata
RankNameAuthor
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
Phytophaga
superfamilyCurculionoidea
familyCurculionidae()
subfamilyEntiminaeSchoenherr 1823
tribePolydrosini
genusPolydrosus()
subgenusPalaeodrosus
speciesarchaetypus

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available