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Metrocephala  Popov, 1996
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1008692

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2019   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderParaneoptera   
                               OrderHemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 – true bugs, hemipterans  
                                  SuborderHeteroptera Latreille, 1810 – true bugs, barbeiro, maria fedida, percevejo, heteropterans  
                                     InfraorderGerromorpha  – semiaquatic bugs, shore-inhabiting bugs  
                                        SuperfamilyHydrometroidea Billberg, 1820  
                                           FamilyHydrometridae Billberg, 1820 – marsh treaders, water measurers, water treaders  
                                              SubfamilyHydrometrinae Billberg, 1820  
                                                 GenusMetrocephala Popov, 1996  
    Direct Children:  
                                                    Species Metrocephala anderseni Popov, 1996  
                                                    Species Metrocephala schaeferi Zettel and Heiss, 2011  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Popov, Yuri A.  
  Publication Date: 1996   
  Article/Chapter Title: Water measurers from the Baltic amber (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Hydrometridae)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Palaeontologischen Institut der Universitaet Hamburg, vol. 79   
  Page(s): 211-221   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0072-1115   
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  Reference for: original description   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Zettel, Herbert, and Ernst Heiss  
  Publication Date: 2011   
  Article/Chapter Title: New species of water striders (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha: Hydrometridae, Gerridae) from Eocene Baltic amber   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, vol. 113A   
  Page(s): 543-553   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0255-0105   
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  Reference for: Metrocephala   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Fossil in Eocene/Oligocene Baltic amber  
 

 

    

 
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