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Ovisargus (Ovisargus) gracilis

Insecta - Diptera - Archisargidae

Taxonomy
Ovisargus gracilis was named by Mostovski (1996). Its type specimen is PIN 2066/1465, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2066), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.

It was recombined as Ovisargus (Ovisargus) gracilis by Zhang (2014).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1996Ovisargus gracilis Mostovski p. 121 figs. 15, 16
1998Ovisargus gracilis Nagatomi and Yang p. 166 figs. 180, 181
2014Ovisargus (Ovisargus) gracilis Zhang p. 867
2016Ovisargus gracilis Grimaldi and Barden p. 26

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
superfamilyArchisargoidea
familyArchisargidae
subfamilyArchisarginae
genusOvisargus
subgenusOvisargus
speciesgracilis()

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