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Lepteremochaetus elegans

Insecta - Diptera - Eremochaetidae

Taxonomy
Lepteremochaetus elegans was named by Zhang (2014). Its type specimen is NIGP Y120601, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Huangbanjigou, Shangyuan Town, NIGP collection, which is in a Barremian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Yixian Formation of China.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2014Lepteremochaetus elegans Zhang p. 207 figs. 1-3
2016Lepteremochaetus elegans Grimaldi and Barden p. 25

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
superfamilyArchisargoidea
familyEremochaetidae
genusLepteremochaetus
specieselegans

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available