Triplosoba pulchella

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
Division: Palaeoptera
Cladus: Panephemeroptera
Cladus: †Triplosobida
Familia: †Triplosobidae
Genus: †Triplosoba
Species: †Triplosoba pulchella

Name

Triplosoba pulchella (Brongniart, 1893)

Holotype: MNHN.F.R51092. Label: ‘Blanchardia pulchella Brongn. (Brongniart, 1893: pl. 18. fig. 8)’.

Type locality (Age and layer): Stephanian (B–C), Upper Carboniferous; Commentry, Allier (Central France).

Synonymy

• Blanchardia pulchella Brongniart, 1893: 328
• Triplosoba pulchella (Brongniart, 1893): Handlirsch, 1906: 312

References

Primary references

• Brongniart, C. 1893. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des insectes fossiles des temps primaires, précédées d'une étude sur la nervation des ailes des insectes. Saint-Etienne: Imprimerie Théolier. 493 pp. BHL.
• Handlirsch, A. 1906–1908. Die fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der rezenten Formen. Ein Handbuch für Paläontologen und Zoologen. Leipzig: W. Engelmann. 1430 pp. [1906: pp. 1–640, 1907: pp. 641–1120, 1908: pp. 1120–1430]. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Béthoux, O. 2014 (Online) 2015 (Print). The Late Carboniferous Triplosoba pulchella is not a fly in the ointment but a stem-mayfly. Systematic Entomology 40(2): 342–356. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12103 . Reference page.  [placed in Ephemeroptera s.l.]
• Carpenter, F.M. 1992. Superclass Hexapoda. In: Kaesler, R.L. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part R, Arthropoda 4, Volumes 3 and 4. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. xxi + 655 pp. ISBN 0-8137-3019-8. DOI: 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5370 . Reference page. 
• Prokop, J. & Nel, A. 2009. Systematic position of Triplosoba, hitherto the oldest mayfly, from Upper Carboniferous of Commentary in Central France (Insecta: Palaeodictyopterida). Systematic Entomology 34(4): 610–615. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00495.x . Reference page.  [placed in Palaeodictyopterida]
• Staniczek, A.H., Bechly, G. & Godunko, R.J. 2011. Coxoplectoptera, a new fossil order of Palaeoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta), with comments on the phylogeny of the stem group of mayflies (Ephemeroptera). Insect Systematics & Evolution 42(2): 101–138. DOI: 10.1163/187631211X578406 . PDF. Reference page.  [placed in Triplosobida within Palaeoptera]