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Mesoraphidia shangyuanensis

Insecta - Raphidioptera - Mesoraphidiidae

Taxonomy
Archeraphidia shangyuanensis was named by Ren (1994). Its type specimen is GMC Sh015, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Near Chaomidian Village (GMC Beijing coll), which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China.

It was recombined as Xynoraphidia shangyuanensis by Ren (1997); it was recombined as Mesoraphidia shangyuanensis by Engel (2002) and Lu et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1994Archeraphidia shangyuanensis Ren p. 135 figs. Pl 12, fig 5; text-fig 5
1995Archeraphidia shangyuanensis Duplicate p. 135
1997Xynoraphidia shangyuanensis Ren p. 183
2002Mesoraphidia shangyuanensis Engel p. 19
2015Mesoraphidia shangyuanensis Lu et al. p. 566

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
superorderNeuropterida
orderRaphidioptera()
suborderRaphidiomorpha
Raphidiformia
familyMesoraphidiidae
subfamilyMesoraphidiinae
genusMesoraphidia
speciesshangyuanensis()

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
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