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Aspidosmiella phaeton

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Megachilidae

Taxonomy
Ctenoplectrella phaeton was named by Gonzalez and Engel (2011). Its type specimen is AMNH Ba-JVe-161, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation. It is the type species of Aspidosmiella.

It was recombined as Aspidosmiella phaeton by Engel (2024).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2011Ctenoplectrella phaeton Gonzalez and Engel p. 43 figs. 1-4
2021Ctenoplectrella phaeton Engel p. 50
2024Aspidosmiella phaeton Engel p. 22

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyApoidea
—AnthophilaLatreille 1804
familyMegachilidae
subfamilyMegachilinae()
tribeCtenoplectrellini()
subtribeCtenoplectrellina
genusAspidosmiella
speciesphaeton()

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.

†Aspidosmiella phaeton Gonzalez and Engel 2011
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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: Priabonian or 37.71000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Ctenoplectrella phaeton (type locality: 123493)