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Sycorax

Insecta - Diptera - Psychodidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1839Sycorax Haliday p. 745
1905Sycorax Aldrich p. 107
1972Sycorax Hennig p. 63
1992Sycorax Carpenter
1994Sycorax Evenhuis
2007Sycorax Azar et al.
2013Sycorax Azar et al. p. 29
2018Sycorax Pielowska et al. p. 243
2022Sycorax Wagner et al. p. 321

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
infraorderPsychodomorpha
superfamilyPsychodoidea
familyPsychodidae
subfamilySycoracinaeJung 1954
genusSycoraxHaliday 1839

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. Sycorax Haliday 1839
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Sycorax longistyla Wagner et al. 2022
Sycorax neli Azar et al. 2007
Sycorax peruensis Petrulevičius et al. 2011
Sycorax prompta Meunier 1905
Sycorax silacea Haliday 1839
Sycorax tumultuosa Meunier 1905
Sycorax ukrainensis Azar et al. 2013
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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Serravallian or 106.30000 to 11.63000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.9 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian106.3 - 93.9France (Charente-Maritime) S. neli (107076)
Ypresian56.0 - 48.07India (Gujarat) S. longistyla (124463)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Ukraine S. prompta, S. ukrainensis (122997)
Priabonian37.71 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) S. tumultuosa, S. prompta (123927)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.63Peru S. peruensis (140493)