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Sphaerocantharis sibirica

Insecta - Coleoptera

Taxonomy
Microcarpoides sibiricus was named by Ponomarenko (1990). Its type specimen is PIN 3063/192, an exoskeleton, and it is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Daya locality (PIN collection 3063), which is in a Tithonian terrestrial horizon in the Glushkovo Formation of the Russian Federation.

It was recombined as Sphaerocantharis sibirica by Fanti (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1990Microcarpoides sibiricus Ponomarenko p. 76 figs. Pl 7, fig 4; text-fig 73
2017Sphaerocantharis sibirica Fanti p. 36

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
genusSphaerocantharis
speciessibirica()

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.

†Sphaerocantharis sibirica Ponomarenko 1990
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available