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Trichomyia mecocerca

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Taxonomy
Trichomyia mecocerca was named by Quate (1963). Its type specimen is UCMP 13074, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is UCMP B-7461, Pa-Buchil, Simojovel region, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1963Trichomyia mecocerca Quate p. 110 figs. Pl 15, fig 1; text-figs 1a,c
1972Trichomyia mecocerca Hennig p. 65

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyPsychodoidea
familyPsychodidae
subfamilyTrichomyiinaeTonnoir 1922
genusTrichomyiaHaliday 1839
speciesmecocerca

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.

†Trichomyia mecocerca Quate 1963
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Diagnosis
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