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Smittia

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Taxonomy
Smittia was named by Holmgren (1869). It is extant.

It was reranked as Spaniotoma (Smittia) by Boesel (1937).

It was assigned to Chironominae by Kieffer (1906); to Spaniotoma by Boesel (1937); to Chironomidae by Carpenter (1992); and to Orthocladiinae by Zelentsov et al. (2012) and Baranov et al. (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1869Smittia Holmgren p. 47
1906Smittia Kieffer p. 10
1937Spaniotoma (Smittia) Boesel p. 53
1992Smittia Carpenter
2012Smittia Zelentsov et al. p. 83
2015Smittia Baranov et al. p. 369

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
RankNameAuthor
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
familyChironomidaeMacquart 1838
subfamilyOrthocladiinaeLenz 1921
genusSmittiaHolmgren 1869

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Smittia Holmgren 1869
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Smittia sukachevae Baranov et al. 2015
Smittia veta Boesel 1937
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Priabonian or 83.50000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Manitoba) Spaniotoma veta (122356)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Russian Federation S. sukachevae (107340)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Ukraine S. sp. (113621)