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Culicoides tyrrelli

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Taxonomy
Dasyhelea tyrrelli was named by Boesel (1937). Its type specimen is ROM 28, an exoskeleton, and it is an inclusion in amber. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (ROM collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.

It was recombined as Culicoides tyrrelli by Borkent (1995), Borkent and Wirth (1997), Borkent (2013), Szadziewski (2018), Borkent (2019) and Borkent and Dominiak (2020).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Dasyhelea tyrrelli Boesel p. 48 fig. 11A
1995Culicoides tyrrelli Borkent p. 55 fig. 9
1997Culicoides tyrrelli Borkent and Wirth p. 84
2013Culicoides tyrrelli Borkent p. 103
2018Culicoides tyrrelli Szadziewski p. 224
2019Culicoides tyrrelli Borkent p. 40 figs. 6H, K
2020Culicoides tyrrelli Borkent and Dominiak p. 142

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
RankNameAuthor
orderDiptera
infraorderCulicomorpha
superfamilyChironomoideaMacquart 1838
familyCeratopogonidae
subfamilyCeratopogoninae
tribeCulicoidini
genusCulicoidesLatreille 1809
speciestyrrelli()

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.

†Culicoides tyrrelli Boesel 1937
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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: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.50000 to 70.60000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Manitoba) Culicoides tyrrelli (122354) Dasyhelea tyrrelli (type locality: 122356)
Middle Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Alberta) Culicoides tyrrelli (104932 122383 122384 122388)