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Sycorax
Taxonomy
Sycorax was named by Haliday (1839). It is extant. Its type is Sycorax silacea. It is the type genus of Sycoracinae.
It was assigned to Trichomyiinae by Hennig (1972); to Psychodidae by Aldrich (1905), Carpenter (1992) and Evenhuis (1994); and to Sycoracinae by Azar et al. (2007), Azar et al. (2013), Pielowska et al. (2018) and Wagner et al. (2022).
It was assigned to Trichomyiinae by Hennig (1972); to Psychodidae by Aldrich (1905), Carpenter (1992) and Evenhuis (1994); and to Sycoracinae by Azar et al. (2007), Azar et al. (2013), Pielowska et al. (2018) and Wagner et al. (2022).
Species
S. longistyla, S. neli, S. peruensis, S. prompta, S. silacea (type species), S. tumultuosa, S. ukrainensis
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1839 | Sycorax Haliday p. 745 |
| 1905 | Sycorax Aldrich p. 107 |
| 1972 | Sycorax Hennig p. 63 |
| 1992 | Sycorax Carpenter |
| 1994 | Sycorax Evenhuis |
| 2007 | Sycorax Azar et al. |
| 2013 | Sycorax Azar et al. p. 29 |
| 2018 | Sycorax Pielowska et al. p. 243 |
| 2022 | Sycorax Wagner et al. p. 321 |
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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
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Albian to the top of the Serravallian or 105.30000 to 11.62000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 93.5 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Albian - Early/Lower Cenomanian | France (Charente-Maritime) | S. neli (107076) | |
| Ypresian | India (Gujarat) | S. longistyla (124463) | |
| Priabonian | Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) | S. tumultuosa, S. prompta (123927) | |
| Priabonian | Ukraine | S. prompta, S. ukrainensis (122997) | |
| Serravallian | Peru | S. peruensis (140493) |