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Chironomaptera

Insecta - Diptera - Chaoboridae

Taxonomy

Chironomaptera was named by Ping (1928).

It was replaced with Mesotendipes by Hong (1982).

It was assigned to Diptera by Ping (1928); to Protendipedidae by Lin (1976), Lin (1982); to Chironomapterinae by Kalugina (1985), Kalugina (1986); to Culicidae by Carpenter (1992); to Chironomidae by Lin (1992); and to Chaoboridae by Borkent (2014).

Species

C. bucucunica, C. collessi, C. gobiensis, C. gregaria (syn. C. melanura), C. karabonica, C. scobloi, C. vesca (syn. Petiolatendipes shouchangensis)

Synonyms

Mesotendipes was named by Hong (1982).

It was synonymized objectively with Chironomaptera by Evenhuis (1994).

It was assigned to Mesotendipedidae by Hong (1982).
Petiolatendipes was named by Lin (1980).

It was synonymized subjectively with Chironomaptera by Evenhuis (1994), Borkent (2014).

It was assigned to Protendipedidae by Lin (1980); and to Chironomidae by Zhang et al. (1986).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1928	Chironomaptera Ping
1976	Chironomaptera Lin p. 106
1980	Petiolatendipes Lin p. 228
1982	Mesotendipes Hong p. 161
1982	Chironomaptera Lin p. 82
1985	Chironomaptera Kalugina p. 67
1986	Chironomaptera Kalugina p. 117
1986	Petiolatendipes Zhang et al. p. 25
1992	Chironomaptera Carpenter
1992	Chironomaptera Lin p. 423
2014	Chironomaptera Borkent p. 480

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata

Rank	Name	Author
class	Insecta
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Panorpida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera
infraorder	Culicomorpha
superfamily	Culicoidea
family	Chaoboridae	Edwards 1920
genus	Chironomaptera

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. †Chironomaptera Ping 1928

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†Chironomaptera bucucunica Kalugina 1985

†Chironomaptera collessi Jell and Duncan 1986

†Chironomaptera gobiensis Cockerell 1924

†Chironomaptera gregaria Grabau 1923

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Invalid names: Chironomaptera melanura Ping 1928 [synonym]

†Chironomaptera karabonica Kalugina 1993

†Chironomaptera scobloi Kalugina 1985

†Chironomaptera vesca Kalugina 1980

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Invalid names: Petiolatendipes shouchangensis Lin 1980 [synonym]

Invalid names: Mesotendipes Hong 1982 [objective synonym], Petiolatendipes Lin 1980 [synonym]

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 Toarcian to the top of the Late/Upper Aptian or 184.20000 to 113.20000 Ma

Collections (44 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Toarcian - Aalenian	184.2 - 170.9	Russian Federation (Kemerovo)	C. bucucunica (125475)
Oxfordian - Kimmeridgian	161.5 - 149.2	Russian Federation (Chita)	C. scobloi (114661)
Late/Upper Jurassic	161.5 - 143.1	Russian Federation	C. bucucunica (114317)
Hauterivian	132.6 - 125.77	China (Gansu)	C. sp. 1 (140463)
Late/Upper Barremian	125.77 - 121.4	China (Nei Mongol)	Mesotendipes gregaria (154967)
Early/Lower Aptian	121.4 - 119.57	China (Anhui)	C. melanura (155595 155609)
Early/Lower Aptian	121.4 - 119.57	Russian Federation (Chita)	C. vesca (119499)
Early/Lower Aptian	121.4 - 119.57	China (Zhejiang)	C. melanura (155610) Petiolatendipes shouchangensis (155603)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	China (Jilin)	C. gregaria (151876 172391)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	China (Liaoning)	C. gregaria (151536 151537)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	Mongolia (Govi-Altai)	C. gobiensis, C. vesca (136020 136021) C. sp., C. gobiensis, C. vesca (122332)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	China (Gansu)	C. gregaria (154779)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	Russian Federation (Chita)	C. gregaria (138147 138148) C. karabonica (126001)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	Russian Federation	C. gregaria (138145 138146) C. karabonica (124811 138144)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	Mongolia (Gobi-Altai aimak)	C. gobiensis, C. vesca (104055)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	Mongolia	C. gobiensis (105796) C. gregaria (151591 151600) C. vesca (151592 151595 151599) Chironomopsis gobiensis (138728)
Aptian	121.4 - 113.2	China (Shandong)	C. gregaria (154892 154893 154894 156554 156555) C. gregaria, C. vesca (106313) C. melanura (156601) Petiolatendipes shouchangensis (125196) Samarura gregaria (156598 164772)
Late/Upper Aptian	119.57 - 113.2	Australia (Victoria)	C. collessi (77192)