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Pericoma

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Taxonomy
Pericoma was named by Walker (1856). It is extant.

It was assigned to Psychodidae by Aldrich (1905), Carpenter (1992) and Evenhuis (1994); to Pericomaini by Kvifte (2018); and to Psychodinae by Hennig (1972) and Azar (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1856Pericoma Walker p. 256
1905Pericoma Aldrich p. 105
1972Pericoma Hennig p. 66
1992Pericoma Carpenter
1994Pericoma Evenhuis
2018Pericoma Kvifte
2019Pericoma Azar p. 518

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyPsychodoidea
familyPsychodidae
subfamilyPsychodinae
tribePericomaini(Enderlein 1935)
genusPericomaWalker 1856

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. Pericoma Walker 1856
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Pericoma minuta Meunier 1919
Pericoma primaeva Cockerell 1915
Pericoma speciosa Meunier 1905
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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Priabonian to the top of the MP 30 or 38.00000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland P. speciosa (120813)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9United Kingdom (England) P. primaeva (113829 123960) Psychoda primaeva (123959)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9United Kingdom (Isle of Wight) P. primaeva (157666)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) P. speciosa (123927)
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) P. minuta (138696)