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Electrocornia antiqua Heie, 1972

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Electrocornia antiqua Heie, 1972
Name authority
Heie, 1972
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Aphididae
Genus
Electrocornia
Extinction status
Recorded extinct

Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: yes. These do not form a complete habitat description.

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumArthropoda
  4. subphylumHexapoda
  5. classInsecta
  6. orderHemiptera Linnaeus, 1758
  7. suborderSternorrhyncha Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843
  8. infraorderAphidomorpha Heslop-Harrison, 1952
  9. superfamilyAphidoidea Latreille, 1802
  10. familyAphididae Latreille, 1802
  11. subfamilyHormaphidinae Mordvilko, 1909
  12. genusElectrocornia Heie, 1972
  13. speciesElectrocornia antiqua Heie, 1972

Close classified relatives

No other member of this genus is present in the selected snapshot.

Browse 72 records assigned to Aphididae.

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. Heie, O.E. (1972) Some new fossil aphids from Baltic amber in the Copenhagen Collection (Insecta, Homoptera, Aphididae). 2(17), 247–262. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:396S6. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.