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Leptomorphus

Insecta - Diptera - Mycetophilidae

Taxonomy

Leptomorphus was named by Curtis (1831). It is extant.

It was assigned to Mycetophilinae by Johannsen (1909); to Mycetophilidae by Aldrich (1905), Carpenter (1992); to Sciophilini by Borkent and Wheeler (2013); and to Sciophilinae by Oliveira and Amorim (2021).

Species

L. africanus, L. palaeospilus, L. sepultus

Synonyms

Diomonus was named by Walker (1848). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Leptomorphus by Borkent and Wheeler (2013).

It was assigned to Sciophilinae by Johannsen (1909); and to Mycetophilidae by Aldrich (1905), Cockerell (1921).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1831	Leptomorphus Curtis p. 365
1848	Diomonus Walker
1905	Diomonus Aldrich p. 141
1905	Leptomorphus Aldrich p. 143
1909	Diomonus Johannsen p. 45
1909	Leptomorphus Johannsen p. 71
1921	Diomonus Cockerell
1992	Leptomorphus Carpenter
2013	Leptomorphus Borkent and Wheeler p. 420
2021	Leptomorphus Oliveira and Amorim p. 100

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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
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Panorpida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera
—	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
infraorder	Bibionomorpha
superfamily	Sciaroidea
family	Mycetophilidae
subfamily	Sciophilinae
genus	Leptomorphus	Curtis 1831

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. Leptomorphus Curtis 1831

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†Leptomorphus africanus Meunier 1907

†Leptomorphus palaeospilus Cockerell 1921

†Leptomorphus sepultus Meunier 1917

Invalid names: Diomonus Walker 1848 [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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Bridgerian to the top of the Holocene or 51.10000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Bridgerian	51.1 - 45.9	USA (Colorado)	Diomonus palaeospilus (121193)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Diomonus sepultus (123927)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Madagascar	L. africanus (152187)