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Abia

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Cimbicidae

Taxonomy

Abia was named by Leach (1817). It is extant. It is the type genus of Abiides.

It was assigned to Cimbicidae by Zhang (1989) and Nel (2004); and to Abiinae by Taeger et al. (2010) and Archibald and Rasnitsyn (2023).

Species

A. lonicerae, A. maculosa, A. paurocephala, A. shandongensis, A. shanwangensis

Synonyms

Zaraea was named by Leach (1817). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Abia by Taeger et al. (2010).

It was assigned to Cimbicidae by Nel (2004).
Procimbex was named by Hong (1984).

It was synonymized subjectively with Abia by Nel (2004), Blank et al. (2009) and Taeger et al. (2010).

It was assigned to Cimbicidae by Hong (1984) and Hong and Wang (1985).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1817	Abia Leach pp. 102, 113
1817	Zaraea Leach pp. 102, 113
1984	Procimbex Hong p. 7
1985	Procimbex Hong and Wang p. 19
1989	Abia Zhang p. 216
2004	Abia Nel p. 263
2004	Zaraea Nel p. 263
2010	Abia Taeger et al. p. 182
2023	Abia Archibald and Rasnitsyn p. 34

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Hymenopterida
order	Hymenoptera
superfamily	Tenthredinoidea
family	Cimbicidae
subfamily	Abiinae	()
genus	Abia

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.

G. Abia Leach 1817

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Abia lonicerae Linnaeus 1758

†Abia maculosa Zhang 1989

†Abia paurocephala Zhang 1989

†Abia shandongensis Hong and Wang 1985

†Abia shanwangensis Hong 1984

Invalid names: Procimbex Hong 1984 [synonym], Zaraea Leach 1817 [synonym]

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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Piacenzian or 20.44000 to 2.58800 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 15.97 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	China (Shandong)	A. maculosa (128551) Clavellaria shandongensis, A. lonicerae (138944) Procimbex shanwangensis, Procimbex shandongense, A. paurocephala (128550)
Piacenzian	3.6 - 2.588	Germany (Niedersachsen)	Zaraea sp. (109196)