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Tanypus

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1803Tanypus Meigen p. 261
1905Tanypus Aldrich p. 117
1906Tanypus Kieffer p. 40
1989Tanypus Zhang
1992Tanypus Carpenter
2022Tanypus Krosch et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
RankNameAuthor
classInsecta
orderDiptera
suborderNematoceraLatreille 1825
familyChironomidaeMacquart 1838
subfamilyTanypodinae
tribeTanypodini
genusTanypus

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. Tanypus Meigen 1803
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Tanypus compactus Meunier 1904
Tanypus dorminans von Heyden 1870
Tanypus eridanus Meunier 1904
Tanypus filiformis Meunier 1904
Tanypus fusiformis Meunier 1904
Tanypus longicornis Meunier 1904
Tanypus obscurus Statz 1944
Tanypus obtusus Meunier 1899
Tanypus pagasti Statz 1944
Tanypus palaemon von Heyden 1870
Tanypus parvus Meunier 1904
Tanypus porrectus Meunier 1904
Tanypus subrotundatus Meunier 1904
Tanypus thienemanni Statz 1944
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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Holocene or 38.00000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (5 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) T. fusiformis, T. porrectus, T. compactus, T. subrotundatus, T. eridanus, T. longicornis, T. parvus, T. filiformis (123927)
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Chironomus dorminans, Chironomus palaemon (123945)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Pelopia dorminans, Pelopia thienemanni, Pelopia obscura, Pelopia pagasti, Pelopia palaemon (122010)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Madagascar T. sp. (151372)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Tanzania T. sp. (152189)