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Pinguixyela pinguis

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Syspastoxyelidae

Taxonomy
Syspastoxyela pinguis was named by Wang et al. (2021). Its type specimen is CNU-HYM-MA2018013, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar. It is the type species of Pinguixyela.

It was recombined as Pinguixyela pinguis by Zheng and Rasnitsyn (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2021Syspastoxyela pinguis Wang et al. p. 1214 figs. 3c, 4, 6
2021Pinguixyela pinguis Zheng and Rasnitsyn p. 4 fig. 1E

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
superfamilyXyeloidea
familySyspastoxyelidae
genusPinguixyela
speciespinguis()

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.

Pinguixyela pinguis Wang et al. 2021
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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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

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 Syspastoxyela pinguis (type locality: 165561)