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Palaeognoriste orientale

Insecta - Diptera - Keroplatidae

Taxonomy
Palaeognoriste orientale was named by Stebner and Grimaldi (2017). Its type specimen is BSIP Tad-887, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection), which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in India.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Palaeognoriste orientale Stebner and Grimaldi p. 4 figs. 1-4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
—NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
infraorderBibionomorpha
superfamilySciaroidea
familyKeroplatidaeRondani 1856
subfamilyLygistorrhininae(Edwards 1925)
genusPalaeognoriste
speciesorientale

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.

†Palaeognoriste orientale Stebner and Grimaldi 2017
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available