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Helophorus (Mesosperchus) costalis

Insecta - Coleoptera - Helophoridae

Taxonomy
Helophorus (Mesosperchus) costalis was named by Ponomarenko (2014). Its type specimen is PIN 2470/997, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shar-Teg, outcrop 443/1 (PIN collection 4270), which is in a Tithonian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Sharteg Formation of Mongolia.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
H. oregonensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2014Helophorus (Mesosperchus) costalis Ponomarenko p. 1664 fig. 36.2

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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
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyHydrophiloidea
familyHelophoridae()
genusHelophorus()
subgenusMesosperchus()
speciescostalis

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