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Nepa

Insecta - Hemiptera - Nepidae

Taxonomy

Nepa was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Nepoidea, Nepinae.

It was assigned to Proboscidea by Scopoli (1763); to Ryngota by Fabricius (1775); to Hemiptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Müller (1764), Linnaeus (1767), Müller (1776), Latreille (1796); to Nepariae by Latreille (1802); to Nepidae by Heer (1853); and to Nepinae by Nel and Paicheler (1992).

Species

N. monteilsensis, N. vulcanica

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Nepa Linnaeus p. 440
1761	Nepa Linnaeus p. 245
1763	Nepa Scopoli p. 119
1764	Nepa Müller p. 27
1767	Nepa Linnaeus p. 713
1775	Nepa Fabricius p. 691
1776	Nepa Müller p. 104
1796	Nepa Latreille p. 87
1802	Nepa Latreille p. 252
1853	Nepa Heer p. 85
1992	Nepa Nel and Paicheler p. 160

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Clareocercaria
—	Acercaria	()
superorder	Pancondylognatha
—	Condylognatha
order	Hemiptera
suborder	Heteroptera
infraorder	Nepomorpha
superfamily	Nepoidea
family	Nepidae	()
subfamily	Nepinae
genus	Nepa

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. Nepa Linnaeus 1758

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†Nepa monteilsensis Nel 1988

†Nepa vulcanica Cockerell 1908

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: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Early/Lower Miocene or 37.00000 to 15.98000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	France (Gard)	N. monteilsensis (144529)
Chadronian	37.0 - 33.9	USA (Colorado)	Zaitha vulcanica (106381)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Spain (Castellon)	N. sp. (140796)