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Blackburnia (Blackburnia) menehune

Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae

Taxonomy
Blackburnia (Blackburnia) menehune was named by Liebherr and Porch (2015). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Makauwahi Cave, NW Excavation Pit, which is in a Holocene lacustrine peat in Hawaii.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2015Blackburnia (Blackburnia) menehune Liebherr and Porch p. 206 fig. 5H

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderAdephaga
familyCarabidae()
subfamilyPlatyninae()
tribePlatynini
genusBlackburnia
subgenusBlackburnia
speciesmenehune

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.

†Blackburnia (Blackburnia) menehune Liebherr and Porch 2015
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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: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0USA (Hawaii) Blackburnia menehune (type locality: 224098)