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Xylocopa obata

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Apidae

Taxonomy
Xylocopa obata was named by Zhang et al. (1994). Its type specimen is Shandong Geological Museum K0390, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Shanwang, Linqu County, collection K0 (Shandong Geological Museum), which is in a Burdigalian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Shanwang Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Xylocopa obata Zhang et al. p. 179 figs. Pl 32, fig 4; text-figs 162, 163

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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
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
—AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyApidae()
subfamilyXylocopinae()
—Xylocopiti
tribeXylocopini
genusXylocopa
speciesobata

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.

†Xylocopa obata Zhang et al. 1994
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available