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Dioctria

Insecta - Diptera - Asilidae

Taxonomy
Dioctria was named by Meigen (1803). It is extant. It is the type genus of Dioctriinae, Dioctriini.

It was assigned to Dasypogoninae by James (1939) and Hull (1962); to Asilidae by Aldrich (1905), Lewis (1972) and Carpenter (1992); and to Dioctriini by Dikow (2009).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1803Dioctria Meigen p. 270
1905Dioctria Aldrich p. 259
1939Dioctria James p. 43
1962Dioctria Hull
1972Dioctria Lewis p. 275
1992Dioctria Carpenter
2009Dioctria Dikow p. 106

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
superfamilyAsiloidea
familyAsilidae()
subfamilyDioctriinae
tribeDioctriini
genusDioctria

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. Dioctria Meigen 1803
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Dioctria florissantina Cockerell 1909
Dioctria jamesi Lewis 1972
Dioctria pulveris Cockerell 1917
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 Chadronian to the top of the Whitneyan or 37.20000 to 30.80000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) D. pulveris (122977) Leptis florissantina (106380)
Whitneyan33.3 - 30.8USA (Montana) D. jamesi (120623)