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Lepichelus pretiosus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Lepiceridae

Taxonomy
Lepiceroides pretiosus was named by Kirejtshuk and Poinar (2013). Its type specimen is Poinar B-C-46, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

It was recombined as Lepicerus pretiosus by Jałoszyński and Yamamoto (2017); it was recombined as Lepichelus pretiosus by Kirejtshuk and Poinar (2017) and Kirejtshuk et al. (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2013Lepiceroides pretiosus Kirejtshuk and Poinar p. 57 figs. 1-7
2017Lepicerus pretiosus Jałoszyński and Yamamoto p. 96
2017Lepichelus pretiosus Kirejtshuk and Poinar p. 35
2023Lepichelus pretiosus Kirejtshuk et al. p. 8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderMyxophagaCrowson 1955
superfamilyLepiceroideaHinton 1936
familyLepiceridaeHinton 1936
genusLepichelus
speciespretiosus()

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.

Lepichelus pretiosus Kirejtshuk and Poinar 2013
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available