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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), 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
—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
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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Campanian or 83.60000 to 72.20000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Campanian83.6 - 72.2Canada (Manitoba) Culicoides tyrrelli (122354) Dasyhelea tyrrelli (type locality: 122356)
Middle Campanian83.6 - 72.2Canada (Alberta) Culicoides tyrrelli (104932 122383 122384 122388)