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Chloropidae

Insecta - Diptera - Chloropidae

Taxonomy

Chloropidae was named by Rondani (1856). It is extant.

It was assigned to Brachycera by Carpenter (1992); and to Schizophora by Wiegmann et al. (2011).

Subtaxa

Agromyza aberrans, Chloropinae, Hippelates, Oscinellinae, Protoscinella

Synonyms

Agromyza aberrans was named by Meunier (1905). It is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Hennig (1965).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1856	Chloropidae Rondani p. 26
1905	Agromyza aberrans Meunier p. 91 figs. Pl 29, figs 4,5
1992	Chloropidae Carpenter
2011	Chloropidae Wiegmann et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	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
—	Dicondylia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Aparaglossata
—	Panorpida
superorder	Antliophora
order	Diptera
—	Neodiptera	Michelsen 1994
suborder	Brachycera	Zetterstedt 1842
—	Heterodactyla
—	Eremoneura
suborder	Cyclorrhapha	()
—	Schizophora
family	Chloropidae	Rondani 1856
family	Chloropidae	Rondani 1856

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.

Fm. Chloropidae Rondani 1856

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Subfm. Chloropinae Rondani 1856

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G. Chlorops Meigen 1803

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†Chlorops anthracinus Statz 1940

†Chlorops aquisextanus Theobald 1937

G. Hippelates Loew 1863

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†Hippelates brodiei Cockerell 1915

Subfm. Oscinellinae

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G. Oscinella Becker 1909

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†Oscinella dormescens Statz 1940

G. †Protoscinella Hennig 1965

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†Protoscinella electrica Hennig 1965

Invalid names: Agromyza aberrans Meunier 1905 [nomen dubium]

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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Priabonian to the top of the Holocene or 38.00000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	United Kingdom (England)	Hippelates brodiei (123959)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Russian Federation (Kaliningrad)	Agromyza aberrans (123927) Chloropidae indet. (201682)
Priabonian	38.0 - 33.9	Denmark	Protoscinella electrica (123762)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	France (Bouches-Du-Rhone)	Chlorops aquisextanus (122508)
Chattian	28.1 - 23.03	Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)	Chlorops anthracinus, Oscinella dormescens (122010)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Madagascar	Chloropinae indet. (152187)