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Mesonemestrius caii

Insecta - Diptera - Nemestrinidae

Taxonomy
Mesonemestrius caii was named by Zhang et al. (2017). Its type specimen is NIGP 165265, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar. It is the type species of Mesonemestrius.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Mesonemestrius caii Zhang et al. p. 142 figs. 1-5

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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
familyNemestrinidaeMacquart 1834
subfamilyArchinemestriinae
genusMesonemestrius
speciescaii

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.

Mesonemestrius caii Zhang et al. 2017
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available