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Cretinemestrinus euremus

Insecta - Diptera - Rhagionemestriidae

Taxonomy
Jurassinemestrinus eurema was named by Grimaldi (2016). Its type specimen is AMNH Bu-SE3/3, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

It was recombined as Cretinemestrinus euremus by Zhang et al. (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2016Jurassinemestrinus eurema Grimaldi p. 55 figs. 19, 51
2020Cretinemestrinus euremus Zhang et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Homeodactyla
superfamilyNemestrinoideaMacquart 1834
familyRhagionemestriidae
genusCretinemestrinus
specieseuremus()

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.

Cretinemestrinus euremus Grimaldi 2016
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available