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Spinotoma ruicheni

Insecta - Coleoptera - Ripiphoridae

Taxonomy
Spinotoma ruicheni was named by Hsiao and Huang (2017). Its type specimen is Century Amber Museum 0200800257, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Century Amber Museum/Xiao Jia collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar. It is the type species of Spinotoma.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Spinotoma ruicheni Hsiao and Huang p. 30 figs. 1-3
2018Spinotoma ruicheni Batelka et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderCucujiformiaLameere 1938
superfamilyTenebrionoidea
familyRipiphoridae()
subfamilyPelecotominae()
genusSpinotoma
speciesruicheni

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.

Spinotoma ruicheni Hsiao and Huang 2017
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 99.60000 to 93.50000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Spinotoma ruicheni (type locality: 178159)