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Baissoptera

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Baissopteridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Raphidioptera

Rank
  
Genus

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Baissoptera is an extinct genus of snakefly in the Baissopteridae family which was described by Martynova in 1961. Since 1961, it has been described three times; Carpenter in 1992, Ponomarenko in 1988 and Engel in 2002. According to J. Jepson et al. in 2011, the parent taxon is Baissopteridae. Fossils of the species have been found in Brazil, China, Spain and Russia.

Species

Baissoptera includes 12 species:

  • Baissoptera brasiliensis Oswald, 1990
  • Baissoptera cellulosa Ponomarenko, 1993
  • Baissoptera cretaceoelectra Pérez-de la Fuente et al., 2012
  • Baissoptera elongata Ponomarenko, 1993
  • Baissoptera euneura Ren, 1997
  • Baissoptera grandis Ren, 1995
  • Baissoptera liaoningensis Ren, 1994
  • Baissoptera lisae Jepson et al., 2011
  • Baissoptera martinsoni Martynova, 1961
  • Baissoptera minima Ponomarenko, 1993
  • Baissoptera pulchra Martins-Neto and Nel, 1992
  • Baissoptera sibirica Ponomarenko, 1993
  • References

    Baissoptera Wikipedia