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Austroconops borkenti

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Austroconops borkenti was named by Szadziewski and Schlüter (1992). Its type specimen is Museum of the Earth, Warsaw Cer Ce Bez 1, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Bezonnais (Ecommoy) amber, which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in France.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1992Austroconops borkenti Szadziewski and Schlüter p. 78 figs. 18-24
1997Austroconops borkenti Borkent and Wirth p. 21
2013Austroconops borkenti Borkent p. 11
2018Austroconops borkenti Dominiak et al. p. 234 fig. 7,8
2018Austroconops borkenti Szadziewski p. 222
2020Austroconops borkenti Borkent and Dominiak p. 35

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Panorpida
superorderAntliophora
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyLeptoconopinaeNoe 1907
genusAustroconopsWirth and Lee 1958
speciesborkenti

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.

†Austroconops borkenti Szadziewski and Schlüter 1992
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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: Early/Lower Cenomanian or 100.50000 to 93.90000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Cenomanian100.5 - 93.9France Ceratopogonidae indet. C (type locality: 123019)