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Protempis

Insecta - Diptera - Empididae

Taxonomy
Protempis was named by Ussatchov (1968). It is not extant. Its type is Protempis antennata. It is the type genus of Protempididae.

It was assigned to Protempididae by Ussatchov (1968), Carpenter (1992) and Nagatomi and Yang (1998); and to Protempidinae by Mostovski (1999).

Species
P. antennata (type species), P. minuta

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1968Protempis Ussatchov p. 623
1992Protempis Carpenter
1998Protempis Nagatomi and Yang p. 116
1999Protempis Mostovski p. 108

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
NeodipteraMichelsen 1994
suborderBrachyceraZetterstedt 1842
Heterodactyla
Eremoneura
superfamilyEmpidoideaLatreille 1804
familyEmpididaeLatreille 1804
subfamilyProtempidinae()
genusProtempis

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. †Protempis Ussatchov 1968
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Protempis antennata Ussatchov 1968
Protempis minuta Ren 1998
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 Callovian to the top of the Late/Upper Barremian or 166.10000 to 125.45000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Callovian - Oxfordian166.1 - 157.3Kazakhstan (Chimkent) P. antennata (106101)
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45China (Liaoning) P. minuta (138436)