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Exilibittacus foliaceus

Insecta - Mecoptera - Bittacidae

Taxonomy
Exilibittacus foliaceus was named by Liu et al. (2014). Its type specimen is CNU-MEC-NN2013010, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Daohugou (CNU 2013 collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2014Exilibittacus foliaceus Liu et al. p. 87 fig. 7

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderMecopteraPackard 1886
suborderPistillifera
infraorderRaptipedia
familyBittacidaeHandlirsch 1906
genusExilibittacus
speciesfoliaceus

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Exilibittacus foliaceus Liu et al. 2014
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available