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Discocoris dominicanus

Insecta - Hemiptera - Thaumastocoridae

Taxonomy
Discocoris dominicanus was named by Slater and Baranowski (2000). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Dominican amber, Yanigua, El Valle region (Brodzinsky collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Yanigua Formation of the Dominican Republic.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2000Discocoris dominicanus Slater and Baranowski p. 350 figs. 1-3
2015Discocoris dominicanus Heiss and Golub p. 529

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
RankNameAuthor
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Clareocercaria
Acercaria()
superorderPancondylognatha
Condylognatha
orderHemiptera
suborderHeteroptera
infraorderCimicomorphaLeston et al. 1954
superfamilyThaumastocoroideaKirkaldy 1908
familyThaumastocoridaeKirkaldy 1908
subfamilyXylastodorinae
genusDiscocorisKormilev 1955
speciesdominicanus

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.

Discocoris dominicanus Slater and Baranowski 2000
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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: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Langhian or 20.44000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Discocoris dominicanus (type locality: 127168)