Boltonocostidae

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: incertae sedis
Ordo: †Hypoperlida
Familia: †Boltonocostidae
Genera: †Boltonocosta

Name

Boltonocostidae Ross, Nicholson & Jarzembowski, 2013

Synonymy

• Orthocostidae Bolton, 1912: 313 [permanently invalid (Art. 39): based on preoccupied type genus]
  • Type genus: Orthocosta Bolton, 1912 (junior homonym of Orthocosta Fritsch, 1879).
• Boltonocostidae Ross, Nicholson & Jarzembowski, 2013 [replacement name for Orthocostidae Bolton, 1912]
  • Type genus: Boltonocosta Carpenter, 1985.

References

Primary references

• Bolton, H. 1912. Insect-remains from the Midland and South-Eastern Coal Measures. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 68: 310–323. BHL.
• Ross, A.J., Nicholson, D.B. & Jarzembowski, E.A. 2013. BOLTONOCOSTIDAE nom. nov. (Insecta, Hypoperlida), a replacement name for ORTHOCOSTIDAE Bolton, 1912. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 70(4): 291-292. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v70i4.a16 . PDF. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Prokop, J., Pecharová, M., Garrouste, R., Beattie, R., Chintauan-Marquier, I.C. & Nel, A. 2017. Redefining the extinct orders Miomoptera and Hypoperlida as stem acercarian insects. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-1039-3 . Reference page.  [excluded from Hypoperlida]